processing multiple fastq files with cutadapt

Question

I have DNA sample from 5 pools, having 25 fastq files each. I am running cutadapt to remove the primers using this command cutadapt -g ACTTAAGTGTATGTAAACTTCCGACTTCAACTG A7_S7_R1_001.fastq -o sb_A7_S7_R1_001.fastq --discard-untrimmed However, this is too time consuming. I tried my hand at writing shell script

for file in /dir/*
do
  cmd cutadapt -g ACTTAAGTGTATGTAAACTTCCGACTTCAACTG "$file" >> results.out
done

But it is not running . Can someone help. Thanks

Answer 1

Try this one

for file in /dir/*
do
  cutadapt -g ACTTAAGTGTATGTAAACTTCCGACTTCAACTG "$file" >> results.out
done

Also you have omitted --discard-untrimmed from the original command. If you want that as well along with everything to run in parallel:

for file in /dir/*
do
  cutadapt -g ACTTAAGTGTATGTAAACTTCCGACTTCAACTG --discard-untrimmed "$file" -o "`basename -s .fastq $file`_out.fastq" &
done