useful scripts and commands while using Northwestern Quest.

This script is give an idea how to pair files when we have a lot of samples in a directory and we need to run them as pairs.For instance when you have paied-end FASTQ files that need assembly. instead of writing the names of the pairs in the quest job script, we can include this pair-matching script.

If you use a specific path to your directory frequently and you don't want to type in the path everytime, you can make an alias to type in just one specific word and shell will take you to your target direstory

files that have the same name and only different in their R1 and R2 printed in the same line.to execute: 'chmod +x file-name.sh' and then just do './file-name.sh'

find /path/to/start/from -type f -exec touch {} +