Bash: Looking for a way to merge 4 lines into one line.

[MrKickkiller]

Hi

 

I'm looking for a (simple) way to merge 4 lines in 4 seperate files into one.

 

The lines would look like

• A---A-A-----A
• -T-------------
• --C--C---C---
• ---G-----------

These are (supposedly) results of dna probing tests.(Yea I know I mismatched some lines, deal with it  )

I would like the result to be something like:

ATCGACACA

 

 

 

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Hi

 

I'm looking for a (simple) way to merge 4 lines in 4 seperate files into one.

 

The lines would look like

• A---A-A-----A
• -T-------------
• --C--C---C---
• ---G-----------

These are (supposedly) results of dna probing tests.(Yea I know I mismatched some lines, deal with it  )

I would like the result to be something like:

ATCGACACA

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

sed 's/\-//g' dna.txt  | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/\s//g'

[MrKickkiller]

 

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

sed 's/\-//g' dna.txt  | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/\s//g'

 

Well I've been think about your suggestion and wouldn't that just give me Line1WithoutDashesLine2WithoutDashesLine3WithoutDashes   

I need to like combine those 4 lines together, not append them and then remove the dashes.

The "rules" are :

• Only 1 base is possible in each and every slot of the sequence: So there is not possibility of having like A on the first character and C on the first character.
• There are no empty (no bases) spots in the sequence.

Hope this made somewhat sense?

[skullbringer]

how about that?

for (int i=0, i<sequence.length, i++){  if (line1[i] != '-'){    newline=newline+line1[i];  }  else if (line2[i] != '-'){    newline=newline+line2[i];  }  else if (line3[i] != '-'){    newline=newline+line3[i];  }  else {    newline=newline+line4[i];  }}

in case you have a varying number of subsequences you can use a second for loop to cycle through them.

 

EDIT: sorry for the java fu, just saw you are looking for a shell script. hope you can interpret it

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Well I've been think about your suggestion and wouldn't that just give me Line1WithoutDashesLine2WithoutDashesLine3WithoutDashes   

I need to like combine those 4 lines together, not append them and then remove the dashes.

The "rules" are :

• Only 1 base is possible in each and every slot of the sequence: So there is not possibility of having like A on the first character and C on the first character.
• There are no empty (no bases) spots in the sequence.

Hope this made somewhat sense?

Oh, I see what you mean. I will write a script when I get home soon.

[MrKickkiller]

Np, i'm here all day  

Thx for the help!

[MrKickkiller]

how about that?

for (int i=0, i<sequence.length, i++){  if (line1[i] != '-'){    newline=newline+line1[i];  }  else if (line2[i] != '-'){    newline=newline+line2[i];  }  else if (line3[i] != '-'){    newline=newline+line3[i];  }  else {    newline=newline+line4[i];  }}

in case you have a varying number of subsequences you can use a second for loop to cycle through them.

 

EDIT: sorry for the java fu, just saw you are looking for a shell script. hope you can interpret it

 

Yea, I understand your suggestion; And i could totally make it work in bash, but the professor is asking for a command, not a script, so yeah

[Cheesebaron]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27764388/bash-merging-4-lines-in-4-files-into-one-single-file