bunzip to gz
(for F in *.bz2; do N=`echo $F | sed 's/bz2$/gz/'`; bunzip2 -c ${F} | gzip --best > ${N}; done) &
gunzip -c file1.fastq.gz | wc
142947236 142947236 5046156304
- ~60 files = 80Go
- 1 file = ~1/2 Go
- 1 fastq = 142947236 lines = 35,736,809 short reads