-m is not work in vcf-compare option

Question

[Anop Singh Ranawat]

-m is not work in vcf-compare option

vcf-compare -m *.vcf.gz

Missing argument in sprintf at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 142.
Invalid conversion in sprintf: "%\232" at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 142.
Missing argument in sprintf at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 142.
Invalid conversion in sprintf: "%\362" at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 142.
Missing argument in sprintf at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 142.
Invalid conversion in sprintf: "%\026" at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 142.
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 at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 32.
    main::error('Expected 1 column names, found [\x{1f}\x{8b}\x{8}\x{4}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{ff}\x{6}\x{0}BC\x{2}\x{0}\x{f5}(\x{ed}}{o\x{db}\x{c8}\x{96}\x{e7}\x{df}\x{99}O...') called at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 142
    main::read_mappings_list('clinvar.vcf.gz', 'ARRAY(0xac0ee0)') called at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 163
    main::compare_vcfs('HASH(0xac0b50)') called at /usr/local/bin/vcf-compare line 22

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

option -m is defined as "... Use with -g (compare genotypes) . The argument to this options is a comma-separated list or one mapping per line in a file. The names are colon separated and must appear in the same order as the files on the command line." http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/perl_module.html#vcf-compare

you just gave a list of vcf on the command line...