# make.file with inputdir printing inputdir

**URL:** <https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-with-inputdir-printing-inputdir/3519>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-with-inputdir-printing-inputdir/3519 "2018-05-24T17:26:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kendra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/kendra/32/112_2.png) [@Kendra](https://forum.mothur.org/u/Kendra)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-with-inputdir-printing-inputdir/3519/1 "2018-05-24T17:26:47Z")

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Somewhere between 1.38 and 1.40 the behavior of make.file when using inputdir changed. in 1.38 the resulting file would be

```nohighlight
sample1 inputdir/sample1_R1.fastq.gz inputdir/sample1_R2.fastq.gz

```

in 1.40 it’s

```nohighlight
sample1 sample1_R1.fastq.gz sample1_R2.fastq.gz

```

Is there a flag that I’m missing that will control that behavior? If not, could there be one?

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**Author:** ![westcott](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/westcott/32/18_2.png) [@westcott](https://forum.mothur.org/u/westcott)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/make-file-with-inputdir-printing-inputdir/3519/2 "2018-06-01T13:01:36Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion! Yes, we can add a parameter for this. You can watch the progress of the enhancement here, [https://github.com/mothur/mothur/issues/466](https://github.com/mothur/mothur/issues/466).