bedtools interset doesn't return a VCF file?

Question

[ManuelDB]

I am filtering a VCF file with a bed file using Bedtools. I have carried out this successfully with

 bedtools intersect -wb -a myVCF.vcf -b myBEDfile.bed > output.txt 

However, what I want is to get a VCF file with the metadata and the header because after this, the application I am developing will require the format of a VCF file. I thought that is a very common filtering operation but reading bedtools interest documentation I can't find anything.

Answer 1

[Trivas]

Have you used the -header flag? From the documentation:

-header | Print the header from the A file prior to results.