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 _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
