bedtool intersect multiple bed files I have 7 biological replicate of a normal sample after peak-calling I converted it into bed files and now I want to find what are the common region between those .

So i tried with bedtool intersect 

my command is this 
bedtools intersect -a SRR2920506.filtered.bed -b SRR2920531.filtered.bed SRR2920466.filtered.bed SRR2920478.filtered.bed SRR2920507.filtered.bed SRR2920532.filtered.bed  &gt; answer.bed


it says " the intersect tool can detect overlaps between a single -a file and multiple -b files (instead of just one previously). One simply provides multiple -b files on the command line."

My doubt is the file that goes to "a" argument is not query which i have to detect overlaps against "b" files as these are all biological replicate. Am i doing the right way?

Secondly I tried with bedops but the number of overlaps which is reported is really low when i compare the result which i get from bedtools intersect function.

Any suggestion or help regarding how to intersect multiple would be really appreciated
If you want to find the intersection between ALL your bedfiles, you can try multiIntersectBed (available since bedtools 2.14.3).

It should work like this :

multiIntersectBed -i SRR2920506.filtered.bed SRR2920531.filtered.bed SRR2920466.filtered.bed SRR2920478.filtered.bed SRR2920507.filtered.bed SRR2920532.filtered.bed  &gt; answer.bed


To sort your bedfiles by chromosome then by start :

sort -k 1,1 -k2,2n myfile.bed