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Modify the names on a VCF file in a streaming fashion, in this case, prepend the string "chr" to them
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change-vcf-names.sh
#!/bin/sh
bgzip -dc $1 | sed -e 's/^\([^#].*\)/chr\1/' | bgzip -c > `basename $1 .vcf.gz`.mod.vcf.gz
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