Description

A module for concatenation of gzipped or uncompressed files getting around UNIX terminal argument size

Input

name:type
description
pattern

meta:map

Groovy Map containing sample information e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end:false ]

files_in:file

List of either compressed or uncompressed files

*

Output

name:type
description
pattern

file_out

meta:map

Groovy Map containing sample information e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end:false ]

${prefix}:file

Concatenated file. Will be gzipped if ${prefix} ends with “.gz” or inputs are gzipped, will be uncompressed otherwise.

${file_out}

versions

versions.yml:file

File containing software versions

versions.yml

Tools

find
GPL-3.0-or-later

GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given starting-point by evaluating the given expression

pigz
other

pigz, which stands for Parallel Implementation of GZip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.