MERGE_MATE_PAIRS(1)

💖 MERGE_MATE_PAIRS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the merge_mate_pairs(1) glow-up ✨ this is a User Commands page, it lives in section 1 of the manual, and it's here to teach you how to smoosh your paired sequence files together like the icon it is 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

merge_mate_pairs — interleave sequences from even and odd files 🌸

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

merge_mate_pairs [options] <even_number_of_files>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Merge input files. that's the whole vibe fr fr 💅

So here's the tea: you hand it an even number of files, and it interleaves the sequences from the even files with the sequences from the odd files. even, odd, even, odd — like a little conga line of sequences 🎀

note: the number of files has to be even. that's not a suggestion bestie, that's the whole point 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -U, --usage — shows you the usage. quick lil reminder of how to use the thing ✨
• -h, --help — prints this message. your bestie when you're lost 🫶
• -V, --version — prints the version. so you know exactly which era you're in 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution, and it can be used for any other usage of the program. iconic behaviour, no cap 💜

and that's the whole page babes 🌸 this was merge_mate_pairs version 1.1.1, dated May 2017 — go forth and interleave, you've got this 💅✨