Dear all,

I tried to open the example RNA-seq raw reads by using the simple command like head, but I got the error as shown below

    $ head ~/RNA-seq/Liu2015/SRR1272191_IDCLV_1.fastq.gz
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I didn't find any problem when I used this read to run FastQC and TrimGalore.

Could you please give me a suggestion, What should I solve this problem?

Thank you so much,

Best,

Kamoltip

Dear all,

Thank you so much for suggestions from everyone, I tried them all and I would like to inform everyone about my result. 

For `$ zcat test.fastq.gz | head` it does not function in my case. It always shows the error. `zcat: can't stat: test.fastq.gz (test.fastq.gz.Z): No such file or directory`. 

Anyway, `$ zless test.fastq.gz` and `$ zmore test.fastq.gz` work very well.

Thanks again for your kind help :)

   



   

