format_custom.pl cannot open custom tsv file

[01Andrea01]

I built my own tsv file from selected taxa in BOLD (see attached) and I'm trying to make a reference database.

perl format_custom.pl -custom ./home/andrea/mkCOInr/terrestrial_arthropods/Diplura.tsv -taxonomy /home/andrea/mkCOInr/COInr/taxonomy.tsv -outdir /home/andrea/mkCOInr/terrestrial_arthropods

I get the error message Cannot open ./home/andrea/mkCOInr/terrestrial_arthropods/Diplura.tsv

and this is the log:

2022-07-19-12-20-53 PARAMETERS: check_seqid_format: 1 custom: ./home/andrea/mkCOInr/terrestrial_arthropods/Diplura.tsv max_length: 2000 max_n: 5 min_length: 100 outdir: /home/andrea/mkCOInr/terrestrial_arthropods taxonomy: /home/andrea/mkCOInr/COInr/taxonomy.tsv

Read input file

what am I doing wrong? The tsv file seems correctly formatted to me

[meglecz]

Hi Andrea,

The dot before the first slash in the following path represents your current working directory. ./home/andrea/mkCOInr/terrestrial_arthropods/Diplura.tsv

Just delete the dot: /home/andrea/mkCOInr/terrestrial_arthropods/Diplura.tsv

Cheers, Emese

[01Andrea01]

Hi Emese, Why am I so stupid? A simple typo. I went checking everything from the file format to the script. Just a stupid typo. Sorry for the hassle and thank you for the kind answer. Cheers, Andrea

[meglecz]

No problem!