#!/usr/bin/perl -w # This script determines all the valid command line switches # from the four main NCBI BLAST tools, and produces Perl code # to put into Bio/Tools/Run/StandAloneBlast.pm # # Torsten Seemann # 27 June 2006 my @exe = qw(blastall blastpgp rpsblast bl2seq); for my $exe (@exe) { open(HELP, "$exe - |") or die $!; my @switch; while () { next unless m/^\s*-(\w)\s/; push @switch, $1; } close(HELP); print "\t\@",uc($exe),"_PARAMS = qw(", join(q{ }, sort @switch), ");\n"; }