Side note: It is good practive to not exclusively use capital letters in the title as this indicates shouting, and to put in some effort into the title such as avoiding to use the same word twice within a title of four words. This simply shows some respect and appreciation towards the community which is driven entirely by volunteers and would indicate that you do not see this community as a walk-in service. Just saying, no offense intended.
plink --vcf /home/lucasmalzoni/Documents/MT-20190821T182828Z-001/MT/VCF and Plink files/4513_MT_Filtered_Samples.vcf.gz --recode --out ALS-MT
PLINK v1.90b6.10 64-bit (17 Jun 2019) www.cog-genomics.org/plink/1.9/
(C) 2005-2019 Shaun Purcell, Christopher Chang GNU General Public License v3
Logging to ALS-MT.log.
Options in effect:
--out ALS-MT
--recode
--vcf /home/lucasmalzoni/Documents/MT-20190821T182828Z-001/MT/VCF and Plink files/4513_MT_Filtered_Samples.vcf.gz
Error: --vcf only accepts 1 parameter.
For more information, try "plink --help <flag name>" or "plink --help | more".
Replace whitespaces by a proper delimiter such as underscore. Plink interpretes this is two arguments, which is imho one of the many reasons why whitespaces should never be used in file or folder names in a Unix environment.
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take the space and still error.
Is this the command you used?
plink --vcf /home/lucasmalzoni/Documents/MT-20190821T182828Z-001/MT/VCF and Plink files/4513_MT_Filtered_Samples.vcf.gz --recode --out ALS-MT
?Why is there an
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in the command line, I think you accidentally mixed two commands.This is just the name of the subfolder.
Replace whitespaces by a proper delimiter such as underscore. Plink interpretes this is two arguments, which is imho one of the many reasons why whitespaces should never be used in file or folder names in a Unix environment.
thank you. I changed the name of the directory and it worked.