plink produces does pruning according to log file but prune.in is full of dots

Hi,

I’m running a big SNP database (160GB vcf file) I pruned with plink;

plink --vcf SNPs_clean1.vcf --allow-extra-chr --indep-pairwise 50 10 0.1 --out SNP_50_10_01

It starts running producing the temporary files and the output files prune.in and prune.out). In the log file it shows having filtered the variants, 49595998 of 57089576 variants removed according to log file attached below. When I count the number of lines of the prune.in file, it does match the number of variants removed.

The problem is that when I open the file it’s just a bunch of dots (one dot per line). The same happens for the prune.out file. I’ve looked for similar errors in this page but I’ve only seen blank prune.in and prune.out files so I hope this isn’t a repeated question.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Ana

Log file:

PLINK v1.90b5.3 64-bit (21 Feb 2018)

Options in effect:

  --allow-extra-chr
  --indep-pairwise 50 10 0.1
  --out SNP_50_10_01
  --vcf SNPs_camsud_clean1.vcf

Hostname: XXXXXX
Working directory: /home/aagapito/POTW/mapeo_vicugna/cardiff
Start time: Tue Nov 13 08:23:34 2018

Random number seed: 1542108214
257764 MB RAM detected; reserving 128882 MB for main workspace.
--vcf: SNP_50_10_01-temporary.bed + SNP_50_10_01-temporary.bim +
SNP_50_10_01-temporary.fam written.

57089576 variants loaded from .bim file.
56 people (0 males, 0 females, 56 ambiguous) loaded from .fam.
Ambiguous sex IDs written to SNP_50_10_01.nosex .
Using 1 thread (no multithreaded calculations invoked).
Before main variant filters, 56 founders and 0 nonfounders present.
Calculating allele frequencies... done.
Total genotyping rate is 0.976739.
57089576 variants and 56 people pass filters and QC.
Note: No phenotypes present.
Pruned 532 variants from chromosome 27, leaving 67.
Pruned 438334 variants from chromosome 28, leaving 68336.
Pruned 3957 variants from chromosome 29, leaving 364.
Pruned 281964 variants from chromosome 30, leaving 41240.
Pruned 247860 variants from chromosome 31, leaving 38534.
Pruned 201756 variants from chromosome 32, leaving 29178.
(the list goes on...)
**Pruning complete.  49595998 of 57089576 variants removed.**
Marker lists written to SNP_50_10_01.prune.in and SNP_50_10_01.prune.out .
End time: Tue Nov 13 08:32:21 2018

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