Expand Current

# 1) Expand and rebuild the current local PubMed archive
EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE=/data/edirect-archive \
PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \
  /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/expand-current

# 2) Run inside a maintenance script after archive synchronization
export EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE=/data/edirect-archive
export PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH
/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/expand-current

Recommended Workflow

1. Confirm EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE resolves to a real local archive tree before running anything.
2. Make sure companion commands such as rchive, pm-collect, and xtract are available.
3. Run expand-current during a maintenance window, because it deletes previous derived index files before rebuilding them.
4. Verify that fresh XML files and rebuilt index layers exist before pointing downstream local queries at the archive.

Guardrails

• This is an operational maintenance script, not a safe metadata probe.
• It deletes prior *.e2x*, *.inv*, and *.mrg* files under the derived archive layers before rebuilding them.
• In the current environment, a missing EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE or missing helpers such as pm-collect can still lead to noisy partial execution and a final EXIT 0, so pre-flight checks matter.
• Sufficient disk space is required because compressed current-archive XML is expanded into plain XML during the rebuild.