-j/--cores INT Number of cores to be used for trimming [default: 1]. For Cutadapt to work with multiple cores, it
requires Python 3 as well as parallel gzip (pigz) installed on the system. The version of Python used
is detected from the shebang line of the Cutadapt executable (either 'cutadapt', or a specified path).
If Python 2 is detected, --cores is set to 1.
This doesn't appear to match the code as that specifically looks at the version of the actual tool, not python itself:
Thanks for spotting this, I have now changed the text for --help and in the User Guide to reflect this (at least to some extent), (811f364261e48898672505a9a5ee439353532c07).
Hi,
The cli docs indicate:
This doesn't appear to match the code as that specifically looks at the version of the actual tool, not python itself:
https://github.com/FelixKrueger/TrimGalore/blob/eb0480424b36fb22027e351869c669b8dc77335b/trim_galore#L783-L819
It looks like the reading of the
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was stopped ~3 years ago.