Respected Sir, I created a new directory Dataform in which I entered the respective data.fasta and data.fastq files. so my directory seems sharmistha@PLEX-1:~/Sharmistha/Bioinfo/Project_data/my_project/Dataform$ ls -l total 746152 -rw-r--r-- 1 sharmistha sharmistha 3560 2009-09-19 13:42 mydata_backbone_in.gbf -rw-r--r-- 1 sharmistha sharmistha 243851317 2009-09-16 11:03 mydata.fasta -rw-r--r-- 1 sharmistha sharmistha 386595241 2009-09-16 10:56 mydata.fastq -rw-r--r-- 1 sharmistha sharmistha 132828265 2009-09-19 12:58 mydata_straindata_in.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 sharmistha sharmistha 42 2009-09-19 16:32 log_assembly.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 sharmistha sharmistha 0 2009-09-19 17:18 mira -rw-r--r-- 1 sharmistha sharmistha 2900 2009-09-19 13:09 seq.gbf vi log_assembly.txt = bash: --project=mydata: command not found This is what I got. Hope this answers your query. Waiting for your reply earnestly but patiently(amongst all your busy schedules). Thanks a lot, With due regards, Sharmistha On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Von: Sharmista Saha > > I cited the manual, because, that is what I followed. I also wanted to > bring > > your attention to the concern, that instead of running everything in one > line > > (the command) still, I am unable to get any result to explicitly say, > that I > > ran everything in the manner as guided, and the log file creating is > writing > > me with this error, I tried couple of times, so was pretty purplexed to > > screen out where my fault remains. > > Can you please provide: > - an inventory of the working directory you are in (ls -l) > - the exact command you have typed in. Please don't cite the manual, I'd > like > to see the command character by character as you typed it in > > Regards, > Bastien >