Splitting a bed file in multiple bed files by track

[albireo]

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

[GenoMax]

See if this works.

awk '/^track/{x="[COLOR="Red"]Track[/COLOR]"++i".bed";}{print > x;}' your_bed_file

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.

[albireo]

works like a charm thanks a lot!!

[zgtmann]

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