skipseq

Function

Description

skipseq is a variant of the standard program for reading and writing sequences, seqret. It performs exactly the same function except that it skips the first specified number of sequences from the input stream and writes out the rest of them. In all other respects, skipseq is the same as seqret. There are many options built-in into EMBOSS for detailed specification of the input and output sequences, for example the sequence type and file format. Optionally, feature information will be read and written.

Usage

Command line arguments


Input file format

skipseq reads one or more sequence USAs.

See the documentation for seqret to see the full range of things that you can do when reading and writing sequences.

Output file format

skipseq writes one or more sequences files, having optionally skipped the first few sequences.

See the documentation for seqret to see the full range of things that you can do when reading and writing sequences.

Data files

None.

Notes

See the documentation for seqret to see the full range of things that you can do when reading and writing sequences.

seqret has an option to allow it to only read the first sequence from a multiple set of sequences (-firstonly). seqret cannot, however, skip the first few sequences from a multiple set of sequence, writing out the rest; this is what skipseq is for.

References

None.

Warnings

You may skip all of the input files.
If the -skip value is greater than or equal to the number of input sequences, there is no warning: this is legal.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

skipseq is a variant of the standard program for reading and writing sequences, seqret.

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