FASTAEXPLOD(1)

💖 NAME 💖

fastaexplod — bestie, this splits a multi sequence FastA file into one file per sequence 🧚✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fastaexplod [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe 💅 fastaexplod reads a FastA file from standard input and writes the sequences it finds into a whole little squad of files. One sequence per output file, no cap. 🎀

The file names it uses look like fasta_<id>.fasta, where id is a running decimal number (you'll see in the examples below that it's zero-padded, like 000000). The prefix — fasta_ by default — can be set with the -p switch. The .fasta suffix gets dropped entirely if you give it the data only switch (more on that below 👇).

Then it prints a two column table to the standard output channel:

• column one = an output file name
• column two = the respective sequence id that got written into that file

fr fr that's it, that's the whole plot. 📋

The following options can be given:

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -p<prefix> — file name prefix, gorl. The files will be called <prefix>000000<suffix>, <prefix>000000<suffix><suffix>, etc. where <suffix> is .fasta unless the data only flag is set. 🌈
• -d/--dataonly — write only the base data but no header/prolog line. This sets the file name suffix to the empty string. bye bye .fasta 👋
• -s/--singleline — write a single line of base data instead of breaking the base data into multiple lines. one long slay of a line 💃
• -L/--longname — do not shorten read names by clipping off everything starting from the first white space. keep the whole name, main character energy 👑
• -l<num> — set the length of the base data lines (80 by default). 📏
• -v/--version — print the version number and quit. 🏃‍♀️
• -h/--help — print a help message and quit. 🆘

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by German Tischler. 💖

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <germant@miltenyibiotec.de>

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2009-2016 German Tischler. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 💀

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 🎀 this little icon came from BIOBAMBAM2, dated January 2016, and yeah the manual section is FASTAEXPLOD(1) — go split some sequences, ily, periodt ✨🦋