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Bash one-liners useful for bioinformatics

by lysozyme on 9/22/24, 6:36 PM with 1 comments

• by eesmith on 9/22/24, 7:35 PM

    Display hidden control characters:
  
    python -c "f = open('file.txt', 'r'); f.seek(0); file = f.readlines(); print file"
  

  That hasn't been updated for Python 3, and I really don't think it does anything reasonable. The 'r' is not needed, the seek is pointless, and the output will contain the Python representation of a list of strings.

  Use cat -v:

       -v      Display non-printing characters so they are visible.  ...
  

  Has Perl disappeared from general bioinformatics knowledge?