Unix

please check parallel GNU page for documentations.\ parallel has changed my way to do repetitive works. Now, I use fewer and fewer for loops.\ Use case 1: I…

First, download and install Atom.

I want to use MACS2 call ChIP-seq peaks for 10 samples(each with IP and input control) with 4 different set of parameters. That’s a lot of commands to type!…

We usually want to maintain header when we do something for the body of the text.\ You can find a body function here which can only accept streams and…

They are small but can do small things well.\ Today, I am going to demonstrate a very useful linux command join.\ join is used to join two files based on a…

Update on 04/24/2016. see a post Shell parameter substitution

I just got my lab mac pro. I wanted to change the color scheme of the default terminal, which is just black and white.

I was reading a thread on stackoverflow and found that this post was very interesting. I will go through the problem and the awk solution. Again, Awk is…

I use command line a lot. It is awesome for data processing, text data formatting and even exploratory data analysis.

I just came back from the software-carpentry workshop held on April 2 and 3 at the University of Miami. The workshop link is here \ and the Etherpad: