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How to swap the headers between fasta files ?

Dear All, I have two files file1.fasta file2.fasta. Both contain same sequences but different headers. I want to swap the headers of file 2 to file 1.

file1.fasta

>name1
atcgtatcta
>name2
ttttacgtcgcgc

file2.fasta

>otu1_name1
atcgtatcta
>otu2_name2
ttttacgtcgcgc

Thanks in advance. Regards, Dinesh S L

sequence sequencing next-gen
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updated by Jianyu Jianyu • written by sankadinesh • sankadinesh

You can as well keep the 2nd file it self. Only headers are different between two files and if you copy headers from file 2, first file would be copy of second one. Am I missing something here?

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written by cpad0112 cpad0112

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum 
parallel --xapply echo ::: $(sed 'n;d' file2.fa) ::: $(sed '1d; n; d' file1.fa) | tr ' ' '\n'
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written by Jianyu Jianyu

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