The first column in the name or ID of each sequence. The remaining text is the description line of the sequence. When the -html qualifier is specified, then the output will be wrapped in HTML tags, ready for inclusion in a Web page. The lines of out information are guaranteed not to have trailing white-space at the end. So if '-nodesc' is used, there will not be any whitespace after the ID name.
Data files None.
This is a rather slow way to search for text in databases. It always exits with status 0 Known bugs None noted. This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.