converting VCF files to TSV file

Question

[realtreeecat]

How do we convert a large vcf file to tsv file?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

a vcf is de-facto a TSV file with a header.

you can also have a look at bcftools query -f

Answer 2

[b.contreras.moreira]

You can try grep -v "^#" file.vcf > file.tsv but of course you discard all metadata