GFFUTILS-CLI_SANITIZE(1)

💖 GFFUTILS-CLI_SANITIZE 💖

okay so bestie, you found the man page for gffutils-cli_sanitize (that's the gffutils-cli manual, section 1, for the record) and honestly? it's giving ✨file glow-up✨ energy. let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gffutils-cli_sanitize — Sanitize a GFF file

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the vibe here is:

usage: gffutils-cli sanitize [-h] [--in-memory] [--in-place] filename

Sanitize a GFF file. Might get merged with clean feature later. (yes that's the actual tea, no cap 🫖)

so basically this cutie cleans and adds useful annotations to a GFF file:

• Makes sure that start > end in all entries 🔄
• Adds an entry id (eid) to each entry, so the files become grep-able 👑

and where does the glow-up go? It outputs the result to stdout, unless you ask it to sanitize in place. so like, peek before you commit, yk? 💅

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🎀 positional arguments: 🎀

• filename — the GFF or GTF file to use (or a GFF database.) that's the one you're handing over for the makeover 🫶

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✨ options: ✨

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic "help me pls" button, iconic, we love her 💖
• --in-memory — Load GFF into memory for processing. (default: True) so yes bestie, this is already her default setting 🧠✨
• --in-place — Sanitize file in-place: overwrites the current file with the sanitized version. (default: False) ⚠️ like... it overwrites the original, so be brave and be sure, okay?

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fr fr, remember: default is stdout, and --in-place is the one that goes goblin mode on your file 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 stay sanitized!

sign-off time 🌈 this is gffutils-cli sanitize 0.14, dated August 2026 — go forth and slay, bestie 💜🎀