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one liner to split a multifasta into separate single fasta
cat hg18.fa | awk '{
if (substr($0, 1, 1)==">") {filename=(substr($0,2) ".fa")}
print $0 > filename
}'
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I got a problem bc "File name too long" after the "> entry". Is there any easy way to shorten this names? TYIA

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