By the way, the same happens for samtools merge:
samtools merge test2.bam test.bam
You must specify at least 2 input files.
...
Dario
On 3 December 2014 at 15:00, Peter Cock <p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> This was the use case I envisioned on reading the original request.
> To me this seems like a sensible thing to add to samtools cat :)
>
> Peter
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Dario Beraldi <dario.bera...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Devon, Sure, I see your point. However, I have a simple script that
> takes
> > batches of bam files, concatenate them and do something else. One of the
> > batches is actually a single file so samtools cat fails. The work around
> is
> > easy enough, of course, but even easier would have been to have cat spit
> out
> > the single file as it is.
> >
> > Dario
>
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