Hello all,

I am trying to convert vcf file to bed file using plink pipeline. I used the following command: plink --vcf input.vcf --make-bed --o output

However, I had to change the names of my chromosomes to just numbers using awk command:

awk '{gsub(/^Chromosome_/,""); print}' no_chr1.vcf > no_chr2.vcf

I also have a lot of scaffolds in the genome such as

modScaffold_4_1

How do I go about changing it in a way that plink does not throw this error and that it does not overlap with already present chromosome numbers:

Invalid chromosome code '4_1' on line 13386275 of .vcf file.

My final step is to convert it to a bed file and use it in admixture software.