A basic introduction on passing parameters to shell scripts
A simple to use pipeline to download FASTQ files from NCBI or EBI, which serves as a good…
I noticed that several shell script would be simpler and more powerful if they adopted some pattern matching, but this technique so widely adopted in most scripting languages (like Python, PHP and — of course — Perl) is less used in Bash scripts.
After a small introduction to Bash scripting, we finally create a first bioinformatics script… introducing one of the loops we can use with the shell. A loop is a structure that…