From 833645b2d97ecebc2e562f39e7b1453d8eeb0838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "C. Titus Brown" Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 21:09:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update doc/command-line.md Co-authored-by: Tessa Pierce Ward --- doc/command-line.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/command-line.md b/doc/command-line.md index 7790170142..9f5e5eec4e 100644 --- a/doc/command-line.md +++ b/doc/command-line.md @@ -888,8 +888,11 @@ This behavior is triggered by the requested output filename -- * to save to a Zip file collection, use `.zip`; * to save signature files to a directory, use a name ending in `/`; the directory will be created if it doesn't exist; +If none of these file extensions is detected, output will be written in the JSON `.sig` format, either to the provided output filename or to stdout. + All of these save formats can be loaded by sourmash commands, too. + ### Loading all signatures under a directory All of the `sourmash` commands support loading signatures from