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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Putting echoed text into a new file Post 302280859 by Ikon on Tuesday 27th of January 2009 05:11:58 PM
Old 01-27-2009
This erases what is in "somefile" and puts "Something in it"
Code:
echo "Something" > somefile

This appends "Something" to "somefile"
Code:
echo "Something" >> somefile

 

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fastautils(1)					     FASTA format file manipulation utilities					     fastautils(1)

NAME
fastautils - FASTA format file manipulation utilities SYNOPSIS
fastachecksum [ options ] <input file> fastaclean fastaclip fastacomposition fastadiff fastaexplode fastafetch fastahardmask fastaindex fastalength fastanrdb fastaoverlap fastareformat fastaremove fastarevcomp fastasoftmask fastasort fastasplit fastasubseq fastatranslate fastavalidcds DESCRIPTION
These are utilities for the manipulation of FASTA format sequence databases which are distributed with the exonerate sequence alignment program. ENVIRONMENT
Not documented yet. EXAMPLES
fastalength sequence.fasta blah blah VERSION
This documentation accompanies version 2.2.0 of the exonerate package. AUTHOR
Guy St.C. Slater. <guy@ebi.ac.uk>. See the AUTHORS file accompanying the source code for a list of contributors. AVAILABILITY
This source code for the exonerate package is available under the terms of the GNU general public licence. Please see the file COPYING which was distrubuted with this package, or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for details. This package has been developed as part of the ensembl project. Please see http://www.ensembl.org/ for more information. SEE ALSO
exonerate(1),e-PCR fastautils March 2003 fastautils(1)
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