getABIfield -- extract arbitrary components from an ABI file
getABIfield
[OPTIONS
] filename [Field-ID
[
Count
]] ...
The getABIfield
command extracts specified blocks from an ABI
file and displays them in a variety of formats. The ABI file may be
considered as a directory structure with files (data blocks) contained
within it. Supply just the ABI filename as an argument will give a
listing of the blocks.
To extract specific data one or more "name count" pairs need to be specified.
-a
-D
separator
-F
separator
-f
format
1
(1-byte integer),
4
(2-byte integer), 5
(4-byte integer),
7
(4-byte real), 8
(8-byte real), 10
(date),
11
(time), 18
(Pascal-string), 19
(C-string).
-h
-I
fofn
-L
separator
-l
-r
-t
To extract the run dates in a tagged format for all the ab1 files in the current working directory:
ls *.ab1 | getABIfield -t -I - RUND
To see the order of the processed data channels (e.g. "GATC") on a single file:
getABIfield 3150.ab1 FWO_
To see the processed trace data for the first channel (e.g. "G") with one sample point per line:
getABIfield -l 3150.ab1 DATA 9
To obtain the version numbers of the various trace processing steps:
getABIfield -t 3150.ab1 SVER 1 SVER 2 SVER 3
See section get_comment(1).
See section scf(4).