bionic (1) sambamba-merge.1.gz

Provided by: sambamba_0.6.7-2_amd64 bug

NAME
       sambamba-merge - tool for merging several BAM files into one


SYNOPSIS
       sambamba merge OPTIONS <output.bam> <input1.bam> <input2.bam> [...]


DESCRIPTION
       sambamba  merge is used for merging several sorted BAM files into one. The sorting order of all the files
       must be the same, and it is maintained in the output file.

       SAM headers are merged automatically like in Picard merging tool.


OPTIONS
       -t, --nthreads=NTHREADS
              Specify number of threads to use for compression/decompression tasks.

       -l, --compression-level=COMPRESSION_LEVEL
              Specify compression level of output file as a number from 0 to 9

       -H, --header
              Output only merged header to stdout in SAM format (e.g. for debugging purposes). Other options are
              ignored.

       -p, --show-progress
              Show  progressbar in STDERR.  For more information on the original samtools MERGE behaviour, check
              out the [samtools documentation](http://samtools.sourceforge.net/samtools.shtml

                                                  February 2015                                SAMBAMBA-MERGE(1)