---
name: "glistmaker"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "genometester"
version: "4.0+git20200511.91cecb5+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/glistmaker"
---

# glistmaker(1)

generate a list of all unique k-mers in input file with their frequencies

## NAME

glistmaker - generate a list of all unique k-mers in input file with their frequencies

## SYNOPSIS

**glistmaker** *\<INPUTFILES\>* \[*OPTIONS*\]

## OPTIONS

**-v**, **--version**           - print version information and exit

**-h**, **--help**              - print this usage screen and exit

**-w**, **--wordlength** NUMBER - specify index wordsize (1-32) (default 16)

**-c**, **--cutoff** NUMBER     - specify frequency cut-off (default 1)

**-o**, **--outputname** STRING - specify output name (default "out")

**--num\_threads**           - number of threads the program is run on (default MIN(8, num\_input\_files))

**--max\_tables**            - maximum number of temporary tables (default MAX(num\_threads, 2))

**--table\_size**            - maximum size of the temporary table (default 500000000)

**-D**                      - increase debug level

## EXAMPLES

 You could find some usage examples in /usr/share/doc/genometester/README.GenomeTester4.md

## SEE ALSO

 [**glistquery**(1)](/glistquery/1.md), [**glistcompare**(1)](/glistcompare/1.md), [**gmer\_caller**(1)](/gmer_caller/1.md), [**gmer\_counter**(1)](/gmer_counter/1.md)