# Make.file sample name

**URL:** <https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-sample-name/19705>\
**Category:** mothur bugs\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-sample-name/19705 "2019-01-23T10:15:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bioinfo\_RB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bioinfo\_RB](https://forum.mothur.org/u/Bioinfo_RB)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-sample-name/19705/1 "2019-01-23T10:15:47Z")

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Dear mothur team,

I would like to report a issue which I am facing while running `make.file` command  
If `inputdir` in `make.file` command contains path with **“underscore \_”** then mothur consider it as a sample name  
Example: In my case if my path is /home/RB/mothur\_output/reads/ then all the samples are named as “mothur”  
Currently I am using mothur 1.39.5 version.

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**Author:** ![pschloss](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/pschloss/32/4_2.png) [@pschloss](https://forum.mothur.org/u/pschloss)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-sample-name/19705/2 "2019-01-24T19:15:45Z")

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Please upgrade to the latest version of mothur. I think this has been fixed since 1.39.5.

Pat

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.mothur.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-sample-name/19705/3 "2019-02-03T19:15:48Z")

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