Splitting a bed file in multiple bed files by track
 

Hi

I have a large combined bed files with several tracks (peaks called for several experiments) of the form

track name="track name 1" description="description1" visibility=2
chr1 1580180 1580696 3 12
chr1 1645419 1645941 4 19
chr1 1700177 1700614 5 10
...
track name="track name 2" description="description1" visibility=2
chr1...
chr2...
chrX


etc

is there a quick way to split this file into multiple beds (one for eack track)?

Thanks a lot for your help

See if this works.

This should produce multiple files (one for each track) with names like "Track1.bed Track2.bed" etc. Modify the word highlighted in red to get corresponding file names.

works like a charm thanks a lot!!

awk '{print $0 >> $1".bed"}' in_bed