diff --git a/modules/local/qc.nf b/modules/local/qc.nf
index f622998e..93b2eef0 100644
--- a/modules/local/qc.nf
+++ b/modules/local/qc.nf
@@ -187,17 +187,17 @@ process DEDUPLICATE {
         tuple val(meta), path(bam), path(chrom_sizes)
 
     output:
-        tuple val(meta), path("${meta.id}.TagAlign.bed"), emit: tag_align
+        tuple val(meta), path("${meta.id}.TagAlign"), emit: tag_align
         tuple val(meta), path("${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam"), emit: bam
         tuple path("${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.flagstat"), path("${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.idxstat"), emit: flagstat
 
     script:
     """
-    macs2 filterdup -i ${bam} -g ${params.align.effective_genome_size} --keep-dup="auto" -o TmpTagAlign1.bed
-    awk -F"\\t" -v OFS="\\t" '{{if (\$2>0 && \$3>0) {{print}}}}' TmpTagAlign1.bed > TmpTagAlign2.bed
+    macs2 filterdup -i ${bam} -g ${params.align.effective_genome_size} --keep-dup="auto" -o TmpTagAlign1
+    awk -F"\\t" -v OFS="\\t" '{{if (\$2>0 && \$3>0) {{print}}}}' TmpTagAlign1 > TmpTagAlign2
     awk -F"\\t" -v OFS="\\t" '{{print \$1,1,\$2}}' ${chrom_sizes} | sort -k1,1 -k2,2n > GenomeFile.bed
-    bedtools intersect -wa -f 1.0 -a TmpTagAlign2.bed -b GenomeFile.bed > ${meta.id}.TagAlign.bed
-    bedtools bedtobam -i ${meta.id}.TagAlign.bed -g ${chrom_sizes} | samtools sort -@ ${task.cpus} -o ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam
+    bedtools intersect -wa -f 1.0 -a TmpTagAlign2 -b GenomeFile.bed > ${meta.id}.TagAlign
+    bedtools bedtobam -i ${meta.id}.TagAlign -g ${chrom_sizes} | samtools sort -@ ${task.cpus} -o ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam
     samtools index ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam
     samtools flagstat ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam > ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.flagstat
     samtools idxstats ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam > ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.idxstat
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ process DEDUPLICATE {
 
     stub:
     """
-    touch ${meta.id}.TagAlign.bed ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.flagstat ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.idxstat
+    touch ${meta.id}.TagAlign ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.flagstat ${bam.baseName}.dedup.bam.idxstat
     """
 }