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+++ b/mytools/bedsort.xml	Tue Mar 13 23:34:52 2012 -0400
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+<tool id="bedsort" name="sort">
+  <description>a interval file by chr and start</description>
+  <command> head -n $skip $input > $output
+  &amp;&amp; tail -n+`expr $skip + 1` $input | sort -k1,1 -k2,2g >> $output    
+  </command>
+  <inputs>
+     <param name="input" type="data" format="bed" label="Input interval file"/>
+     <param name="skip" type="integer" value="0" label="top lines to skip" help="output directly, not sorted"/>
+  </inputs>
+  <outputs>
+    <data format="bed" name="output" />
+  </outputs>
+  <help>
+
+**Description**
+
+Unix command used::
+
+    head -n $skip $input > $output
+    tail -n+`expr $skip + 1` $input | sort -k1,1 -k2,2g >> $output
+
+  </help>
+</tool>