Tips for using DivBase programmatically

TODO - Should be a set of tips for users who want to use DivBase in scripts etc..

E.G. how to wait for a query to be complete, and download the query results programmatically.

Parse divbase-cli files ls/info output programmatically

1. You can make the output of the divbase-cli files info and divbase-cli files ls commands in TSV format for easier parsing. Use the --tsv flag:

   divbase-cli files ls --tsv
   divbase-cli files info FILE_NAME --tsv
   

   You can do the same for any project versions you've created for your project:

   divbase-cli version ls --tsv
   divbase-cli version info VERSION_NAME --tsv
   

2. Rather than first downloading a file, you can stream a file from the command line and pipe it into other tools for processing directly without saving it to disk.

   divbase-cli files stream my_file.vcf.gz | zcat | less
   

   Info

   BCFTools accepts stdin as input, so you can also pipe a VCF file directly into BCFTools without saving it first:

   divbase-cli files stream my_file.vcf.gz | bcftools view -h -