I have the following file with @M at the beginning of the line as a RS:
And I am using the following script to extract sequences with a specific string(GGCATGAAAACATACA):
The problem I have is that the string should be at the beginning of the second line. Thus, the desire output file should include only three records:
My script, however, is outputting an extra record containing the string somewhere in the middle of the second line and a blank line between each record:
I tried adding ^ to the string(/^GGCATGAAAACATACA/), but that obviously does not work.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
PS. Ideally I would like to use | sed '/^$/d' to eliminate the blank lines if at all possible
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