| samtools-head(1) | Bioinformatics tools | samtools-head(1) |
samtools-head - view SAM/BAM/CRAM file headers
samtools head [-h INT] [-n INT] [FILE]
By default, prints all headers from the specified input file to standard output in SAM format. The input alignment file may be in SAM, BAM, or CRAM format; if no FILE is specified, standard input will be read. With appropriate options, only some of the headers and/or additionally some of the alignment records will be printed.
The samtools head command outputs SAM headers exactly as they appear in the input file; in particular, it never adds an @PG header itself. (Other samtools commands add such @PG headers to facilitate provenance tracking in analysis pipelines, but because samtools head never outputs more than a handful of alignment records it is unsuitable for use in such contexts anyway.)
Written by John Marshall from the University of Glasgow.
| 2 September 2022 | samtools-1.16.1 |