DBIGCG(1e)

✨ DBIGCG — like, the manual page but make it make sense ✨

okay bestie, this is dbigcg from the EMBOSS Manual for Debian, section 1e of the manual pages. It's giving "niche but essential" and I'm obsessed 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dbigcg — index a GCG formatted database 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dbigcg -dbname string -idformat list -directory directory
       -filenames string -release string -date string -fields list
       -exclude string -maxindex integer -sortoptions string
       -systemsort boolean -cleanup boolean -outfile outfile
       -indexoutdir outdir

dbigcg -help

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, dbigcg is a command line program from EMBOSS — and if you don't know, EMBOSS is literally "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite" 🧬✨

It's part of the "Utils:Database indexing" command group(s). yeah, it's a utils girlie. database indexing. very main character energy if your main character is a bioinformatics pipeline 🌈

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

💖 Input section 💖

• -dbname string — the name of the database you're indexing, bestie 🗂️
• -idformat list — the format of the IDs. Default value: EMBL 💫
• -directory directory — where the directory's at. Default value: . 📁
• -filenames string — the filenames to pick up. Default value: *.seq 🌟

🔥 Required section 🔥

these ones you actually have to give, no skipping 🙅‍♀️

• -release string — the release. Default value: 0.0 🏷️
• -date string — the date. Default value: 00/00/00 📅

👑 Advanced section 👑

• -fields list — the fields. Default value: acc 🧚
• -exclude string — stuff to exclude, periodt ✋
• -maxindex integer — max index. it's an integer, you know the vibe 🔢
• -sortoptions string — sort options, typically -T . to use the current directory for work files, and -k 1,1 to force GNU sort to use the first field. Default value: -T . -k 1,1 🌸
• -systemsort boolean — use the system sort or nah. Default value: Y 💖
• -cleanup boolean — clean up after yourself, queen. Default value: Y 🧹✨

🌈 Output section 🌈

• -outfile outfile — where the output goes 📤
• -indexoutdir outdir — the index output directory. Default value: . 📂

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💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? not me being the one to tell you but — bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org/emboss, or you can go straight to the EMBOSS developers at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031 🐛🫶

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

dbigcg is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. iykyk 📖✨

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

• Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page. slay, honestly 👑

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

This manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package. It can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself. 📜

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okay that's the whole thing, you're welcome 💅

this was EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012 — and yeah, it's page DBIGCG(1e) in the Debian manual set 🎀 bye bestie, go index something 🌟