BETWEEN-TWO-GENES(1)

✨ BETWEEN-TWO-GENES ✨

okay bestie, so you know how we're deep in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual?? yeah, this is one of those little helper cuties from that family 💖 it's called between-two-genes and she's giving slice and dice but make it tab-delimited 🌈

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🎀 NAME 🎀

between-two-genes — literally just select a range of tab-delimited lines, that's it, that's the whole job 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

between-two-genes key1 key2

like... two keys. in. two keys. that's the vibe check. ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea ☕ — between-two-genes reads a tab-delimited file on standard input (probably something xtract(1) spat out, iykyk) and then writes a consecutive subset of those lines to standard output. main character behavior honestly 👑

and which subset, you ask?? the range starts at the (first) line whose first field is key1 — and it goes all the way up to but not including the next line whose first field is key2. so like, key2 is the boundary, not the guest list. she does NOT get included. no cap 🚫

⚠️ okay important bestie: both keys are expected to be alphanumeric — think gene symbols and stuff like that. if you roll up with other characters?? that's undefined behavior territory and we do NOT go there fr fr 💀

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• reorder-columns(1)
• xtract(1)

go give them a lil kiss too, they're part of the squad 🫶

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and that's the whole page, periodt 🎀 this one's from NCBI, dated 2025-05-26, and it lives in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual alongside her besties. bye babe, go pipe something beautiful 💖✨🦋