[Shorash]

faSomeRecords from Kent utilities would be the simplest/fast solution (http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/)

http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9498

https://www.biostars.org/p/2822/

https://www.biostars.org/p/1195/

Thank you very much! Works perfectly and pulls both headers out

Thanks everyone for the help.

[Brian Bushnell]

Sounds like you want someone to do your homework for you.

[amitm]

why don't use only grep?

cat filein.fasta | grep '>' --after-context=1 > fileout.fast a

Thanks hugorody for mentioning about this parameter in grep. I wasn't aware of it. Saves a lot of scripting!