From e0a12c31585a67003350ed5018385b87b0f28a3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavi Moreno <xaviml.93@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 18:45:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update zUMIs.sh

This is a small optimization suggestion. There is no need to use `cat` to pipe `head` since `head` can read the file and stop when reaching the number of lines.
---
 zUMIs.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/zUMIs.sh b/zUMIs.sh
index dd54654..2907733 100755
--- a/zUMIs.sh
+++ b/zUMIs.sh
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ if [[ "${whichStage}" == "Filtering" ]] ; then
       pref=$(basename ${f} .gz)
       l=$(ls ${tmpMerge}${pref}* | sed "s|${tmpMerge}${pref}||" | sed 's/.gz//')
   else
-      cat ${f} | head -n 4000000 > ${tmpMerge}/${project}.1mio.check.fq
+      head -n 4000000 ${f} > ${tmpMerge}/${project}.1mio.check.fq
       smallsize=$(stat --printf="%s" ${tmpMerge}/${project}.1mio.check.fq)
       rm ${tmpMerge}/${project}.1mio.check.fq
       nreads=$(expr ${fullsize} \* 1000000 / ${smallsize})