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| catless -Nn small.fq
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piping
So what is that vertical bar ( | ) all about? It is the pipe symbol!
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| language | bash |
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| title | Uncompressing output on the fly with gunzip -c |
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# make sure you're in your $SCRATCH/core_ngs/fastq_prep directory
cd $SCRATCH/core_ngs/fastq_prep
gunzip -c Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | more
gunzip -c Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | head
gunzip -c Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | tail
gunzip -c Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | tail -n +901 | head -8
# Note that less will display .gz file contents automatically
less -N Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz |
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| language | bash |
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| title | Counting lines with wc -l |
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zcat Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | more
zcat Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | less -N
zcat Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | head
zcat Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | tail
zcat Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | tail -n +901 | head -8
# include original line numbers
zcat Sample_Yeast_L005_R1.cat.fastq.gz | cat -n | tail -n +901 | head -8 |
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There will be times when you forget to pipe your large zcat or gunzip -c output somewhere – even the experienced among us still make this mistake! This leads to pages and pages of data spewing across your terminal. If you're lucky you can kill the output with Ctrl-c. But if that doesn't work (and often it doesn't) just close your Terminal window. This terminates the process on the server (like hanging up the phone), then you just can log back in. |
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| language | bash |
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| title | For loop to count sequences in multiple FASTQs |
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for fname in *.gz; do
echo "Processing $fname"
echo "..$fname has $((`zcat $fname | wc -l`l | awk '{print $1 / 4))}'` sequences"
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Here fname is the name I gave the variable that is assigned a different file generated by the filename wildcard matching, each time through the loop. The actual file is then referenced as$fname inside the loop.
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for <variable name> in <expression>; do
<something>
<something else>
done |
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The bash shell lets you put multiple commands on one line if they are each separated by a semicolon ( ; ). So in the above for loop, you can see that bash consideres the do keyword to start a separate command. Two alternate ways of writing the loop are: | Code Block |
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| # One line for each clause, no semicolons
for <variable name> in <expression>
do
<something>
<something else>
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| # All on one line, with semicolons separating clauses
for <variable name> in <expression>; do <something>; <something else>; done |
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