Hi,

I am trying to use bedtools to generate a list of random genome intervals

# https://bedtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content/tools/random.html
$ bedtools random -g hg19.genome -l 5 -n 100
chr9  54133731        54133736        1       5       +
chr1  235288830       235288835       2       5       -
chr8  26744718        26744723        3       5       +
chr3  187313616       187313621       4       5       -
chr11 88996846        88996851        5       5       -
chr13 84714855        84714860        6       5       -
chr13 10759738        10759743        7       5       -
chr6  122569739       122569744       8       5       +
chr17 50884025        50884030        9       5       -
chr11 38576901        38576906        10      5       +

I noted that there are strand info in col 6 and interval may overlap if length * number > genome length

My question is:

1) Can I safely omit col 6, if I am not need strand infomation, Its also random?

2) I observe that when length * number > genome length, this command tends to output overlapping intervals, but when length * number < genome length, the command will output non-overlapping intervals first or will there be random overlaps as well.