Bedtools intersect a position in a range

Question

[christylynn002]

I used an answer from this post to intersect a specific position within a range. Specifically I used:

awk 
  'BEGIN{OFS="\t"}
  {print $1, $2-1,$2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10}
  ' Nonsensetranslated.txt | \ intersectBed -a - -b final_starts_stops.bed -wa -wb > done.txt

It printed to the screen well, however when I tried to output it to a file, it failed and kept giving me this as an error:

awk: can't open file
 input record number 15577, file
 source line number 1

I don't quite know where I could be going wrong. Any suggestions?

Here are some examples of what my files look like:

Nonsensetranslated.txt:

chr22    43089485    -    A4GALT    NM_017436.4    158    TGG    W    TAG    *
chr22    43089175    -    A4GALT    NM_017436.4    261    TGG    W    TGA    *
chr12    53702241    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    387    CAG    Q    TAG    *
chr12    53708891    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    145    CAA    Q    TAA    *
chr12    53703486    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    237    CAA    Q    TAA    *
chr12    53701679    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    456    CAG    Q    TAG    *
chr12    53708083    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    230    CGA    R    TGA    *
chr12    53703020    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    286    CGA    R    TGA    *
chr12    53702572    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    342    CGA    R    TGA    *
chr12    53701482    -    AAAS    NM_015665.5    478    CGA    R    TGA    *

final_starts_stops.bed:

chr12    9220303    9268558
chr1    76190031    76229363
chr12    121163570    121177811
chr17    7123149    7128586
chr11    107992257    108018891
chr12    52301201    52317145

[PoGibas]

"tried to output it to a file" - what do you mean by that (you already did this with > done.txt)? Output awk or bedtools? Can you post your command?

[christylynn002]

Yes, but when I tried > done.txt at the end of my original code, I got the error. I can print it to the screen fine without the > done.txt

Answer 1

[iraun]

Try removing \ symbol. I tried your command and for me works nice, both on screen and on file, so, it's a bit weird :S.

[christylynn002]

Perfect! Thank you soo much :)