[EMBOSS] Command line with --firstonly

[Niels Larsen]

Ah well, maybe I am the only one that could ever fall into
that trap, but thanks.

Have I overlooked a way to switch fasta output to sequence-as
-single-line mode? I think it allowed by fasta format, and
if I/we were to build a processing pipe with sequence flowing,
then I imagine that would be useful both for speed and I/O
simplicity ..

Niels L


Peter Rice wrote:
> Niels Larsen wrote:
> 
>> I found a little trap with seqret, if one enters by mistake --firstonly
>> (the GNU way) instead of -firstonly, then seqret quietly returns
>> nothing. It should probably complain instead, the other arguments
>> do that. I use 4.1.0.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> It doesn't silently return nothing ... it writes to a file called --firstonly 
> (and you need "cat -- --firstonly to read it  and "rm -- --firstonly" to remove 
> it :-)
> 
> In the next release we will allow -- as a qualifier prefix on the command line.
> 
> We have no use (as far as I can tell) for "--" as a delimiter for real filenames 
> (like cat and rm).
> 
> regards,
> 
> Peter