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lh3 / seqtk

Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats
MIT License
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output as compressed? #173

Closed ahdee closed 3 years ago

ahdee commented 3 years ago

Hi I was wondering if its possible to output the files as compressed? I tried doing this.

seqtk subseq $fq1 names2.txt > strip2_R1.fq.gz

but the resulting file is still ASCII based and not compressed.

Thanks!

lh3 commented 3 years ago

Please pipe to gzip.

ahdee commented 3 years ago

Thanks, did'nt think about that until posting.