Taxons

This retrieves possible taxons from an incomplete query string.

Arguments

NameShortLongDescription
Limit-l--limitNumber of search results to return [default: 5]
Output-o--outputoptional filepath to write output to [default=stdout]

Command Line Interface

# return all taxons that contain the substring 'sapiens'
ggetrs ncbi taxons sapiens

# return the first 3 taxons that contain the substring 'sapi'
ggetrs ncbi taxons -l 3 sapi