I may prove wrong, but, it appears to me that since you want to append the results, which is necessarily a serial operation, that parallel will not be able to help you.
~Malcolm From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of vijai2007 Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 11:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: parallel to gunzip and merge .gz files Hello, I have about 99 files in the file name format: SRRA_ATCACG_L008_R1_001.fastq.gz to SRRA_ATCACG_L008_R1_099.fastq.gz I want to unzip and merge them to a single fastq file. These are from the Illumina CASAVA 1.8.1 How do I do this in GNU parallel? Thanks vijai
