Re: parallel to gunzip and merge .gz files

[Shao Zhang]

Try p7zip.  It works in parallel so all you have to do is tell it to
archive all those files and it will use all available CPUs to do it.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Cook, Malcolm <MEC@stowers.org> wrote:
> 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.
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> ~Malcolm
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> From: parallel-bounces+mec=stowers.org@gnu.org
> [mailto:parallel-bounces+mec=stowers.org@gnu.org] On Behalf Of vijai2007
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 11:08 PM
> To: parallel@gnu.org
> Subject: parallel to gunzip and merge .gz files
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> Hello,
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> I have about 99 files in the file name format:
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> SRRA_ATCACG_L008_R1_001.fastq.gz to SRRA_ATCACG_L008_R1_099.fastq.gz
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> I want to unzip and merge them to a single fastq file.
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> These are from the Illumina CASAVA 1.8.1
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> How do I do this in GNU parallel?
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> Thanks
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> vijai