Release samtools-0.1.14 (r933:170)

[samtools.git] / samtools.1

diff --git a/samtools.1 b/samtools.1
index 483467983b5778bbff4a5bee0a8542b893aca75a..ba323926d83451cf4013c511cf832d6e820a76f9 100644 (file)
--- a/samtools.1
+++ b/samtools.1
@@ -249,6 +249,16 @@ with the header in
 This command is much faster than replacing the header with a
 BAM->SAM->BAM conversion.
 
+.TP
+.B cat
+samtools cat [-h header.sam] [-o out.bam] <in1.bam> <in2.bam> [ ... ]
+
+Concatenate BAMs. The sequence dictionary of each input BAM must be identical,
+although this command does not check this. This command uses a similar trick
+to
+.B reheader
+which enables fast BAM concatenation.
+
 .TP
 .B sort
 samtools sort [-no] [-m maxMem] <in.bam> <out.prefix>