Re: [Vcftools-help] vcf-sort

[Petr D. <pd...@sa...>]

Hi Jialu,

you can stream the file to be sorted, like this:

cat file.vcf | vcf-sort > out.vcf

Check also the help message

vcf-sort -h

Best,
Petr




On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 15:59 -0600, Jialu Yan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm new to vcftools and I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I
> typed vcf-sort into the terminal in my home directory (just this
> command), and it said 'sort -k1,1d -k2,2n', then I terminated this
> command using ^C. I was wondering if this will change my files? And
> what does 'vcf-sort' command do if there's no vcf file following the
> 'vcf-sort' command? I was a little worried. 
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Best regards,
> Jialu
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