BEDOPS-STARCH(1)

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version 2.4.42 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, meet bedops-starch — it's the manual page for bedops-starch 2.4.42+dfsg and it's literally the tool that packs your BED data into a cute lil archive. no cap. 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the command is starch and she is that girl. 🌸

citation:

binary version: 2.4.42 (typical) (creates archive version: 2.2.0) authors: Alex Reynolds and Shane Neph 👑

🌈 USAGE 🌈

starch [ --note="foo bar..." ]
       [ --bzip2 | --gzip ] [ --omit-signature ] [ --report-progress=N ]
       [ --header ] [ <unique-tag> ] <bed-file>

okay important things, pls read them, i'm begging 🙈

  • BED input must be sorted lexicographically (e.g., using BEDOPS sort-bed). it's giving non-negotiable.
  • Please use - to indicate reading BED data from standard input.
  • Output must be directed to a regular file.
  • The bzip2 compression type makes smaller archives, while gzip extracts faster.

🎀 Process Flags 🎀

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  • --note="foo bar..." — Append note to output archive metadata (optional).
  • --bzip2 | --gzip — Specify backend compression type (optional, default is bzip2).
  • --omit-signature — Skip generating per-chromosome data integrity signature (optional, default is to generate signature).
  • --report-progress=N — Report compression progress every N elements per chromosome to standard error stream (optional).
  • --header — Support BED input with custom UCSC track, SAM or VCF headers, or generic comments (optional).
  • <unique-tag> — Optional. Specify unique identifier for transformed data.
  • --version — Show binary version.
  • --help — Show this usage message.
not me listing every single flag because every single flag matters, periodt 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The full documentation for bedops-starch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and bedops-starch programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info bedops-starch

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it bestie, it's iconic 📖✨

bedops-starch 2.4.42+dfsg · August 2025 — okay that's the whole page, ily, go compress something 💖🫶🌸

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