diff --git a/src/mergeBed/mergeBed.cpp b/src/mergeBed/mergeBed.cpp
index 526b45f543b29ce6746e2760b1fdcc554c6cbd3c..dae9887ba3ee46e8930b995e9be6bf3d2f8e4004 100644
--- a/src/mergeBed/mergeBed.cpp
+++ b/src/mergeBed/mergeBed.cpp
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ void BedMerge::ReportStranded(string chrom, int start,
     else if (_numEntries == false && _reportNames == true &&
         _reportScores == false) {
         ReportMergedNames(names);
-        printf("\t\t%s\n", strand.c_str());
+        printf("\t.\t%s\n", strand.c_str());
     }
     // merged intervals and scores        
     else if (_numEntries == false && _reportNames == false && 
diff --git a/test/jaccard/obs1 b/test/jaccard/obs1
deleted file mode 100644
index ac102f83863c592a46cbc3140539113c6294789f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/test/jaccard/obs1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-intersection	union	jaccard	n_intersections
-10	140	0.0714286	1
diff --git a/test/jaccard/obs2 b/test/jaccard/obs2
deleted file mode 100644
index ac102f83863c592a46cbc3140539113c6294789f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/test/jaccard/obs2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-intersection	union	jaccard	n_intersections
-10	140	0.0714286	1
diff --git a/test/jaccard/test-jaccard.sh b/test/jaccard/test-jaccard.sh
index 9018d8afd84d594cc61dddab16d5a7c276d6acea..587b924bca5dc5d33f8c18973771c4e593078884 100644
--- a/test/jaccard/test-jaccard.sh
+++ b/test/jaccard/test-jaccard.sh
@@ -66,3 +66,4 @@ $BT jaccard -a a.bed -b b.bed > obs1
 $BT jaccard -a b.bed -b a.bed > obs2
 check obs1 obs2
 
+rm obs1 obs2