FAFORMAT(1)

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✨ FAFORMAT(1) ✨

okay so bestie, this one lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual pages (perl gang rise up 💅), and it's literally just a little glow-up machine for sequences. here's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

faformat.pl — literally reformats a sequence into fasta format. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

faformat.pl [options] [<file-in> [<file-out>]]

so you give it options, maybe a file to read from, maybe a file to write to, and it does its little transformation. no cap. 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --name, --title — sets the name that gets dropped onto the very first line of the fasta file. it's giving "put your fave header here". 👑
  • --width=<columns> — the column width where the line wrapping happens. default is 75, so if you don't say anything it just goes with 75. fr fr. 🧚

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

reads in a sequence, and puts it out in FastA format. lowkey simple, highkey useful. 💜

and that's the entire page bestie — no hidden lore, no extra flags, nothing sneaky. 🍓

this little cutie came to you courtesy of perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-08-12. periodt. 💖✨🫶

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