Genomecomb moved to github on https://github.com/derijkp/genomecomb
with documentation on https://derijkp.github.io/genomecomb.
For up to date versions, go there. These pages only remain here for the data on the older scientific
application (or if someone really needs a long obsolete version of the software)
cat
Format
cg cat ?options? file ?file? ...
Summary
Concatenate tab separated files and print on the standard output
(stripping headers of files other than the first).
Description
Concatenate tab separated files and print on the standard output.
Headers of tab files others than the first one will be stripped. If
one of the tab file does not have the same fields as the first, an
error is given, unless the merge or force options are used.
Arguments
- file ...
- files to be concatenated
Options
- -m 0/1 (--merge)
- if the merge option is given, tab files with different fields
will be merged: The resulting tab file has each field that occurs
in at least one of the source files. If a given field is not
present in one of the source files, it will be empty for each line
coming from this file.
- -f 0/1 (--force)
- if the force option is given, tab files with different fields
will still be concatenated without error.
- -s 0/1 (--sort)
- if the sort option is given, the files will be sorted
(natural sort order) before being concatenated. This is usefull for
e.g. concatenating files split over chromosomes in the correct
order.
- -c 0/1/f/n (--comments)
- Determines what will be in the comments of the result file.
if -c is 1 (default), the names of the files that are concatenated
are added in the comment in addition to the comments of all source
files. if 0 the comments of all source files are there, but no
extra comments (file names) are added. You can use the value f to
only display the comment of the first file, or n to leave out
comments completely.
- -n fieldname (--fieldname)
- if -n is not empty, a column with the name fieldname will be
added, that contains the filename where the line came from
- -fields fields (--fields)
- only return the given fields in the concatenated
output
Category
tsv
