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Problems with PLINK on Mac OS X

Hi

I want to start to use PLINK on OS X (El Capitan). I follow the instructions to download and install, nevertheless I can´t get that the program recognise any command as "--file" . I have the files .ped and .map in the same folder that PLINK as it is recommended. Please, if somebody could help I will be very thankfull.

Best regards

I copy here the error message and the path of the commands. 

MacBook-Pro-de-Pedro:~ Pedro$ /Users/Pedro/plink-1-5.07-mac-intel/plink --file test


@----------------------------------------------------------@
|        PLINK!       |     v1.07      |   10/Aug/2009     |
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|  (C) 2009 Shaun Purcell, GNU General Public License, v2  |
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|  For documentation, citation & bug-report instructions:  |
|        http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/purcell/plink/        |
@----------------------------------------------------------@

Web-based version check ( --noweb to skip )
Recent cached web-check found... OK, v1.07 is current

+++ PLINK 1.9 is now available! See above website for details +++ 

Writing this text to log file [ plink.log ]
Analysis started: Sat May  7 17:16:26 2016

Options in effect:
    --file test


ERROR: No file [ test.ped ] exists.
MacBook-Pro-de-Pedro:~ Pedro$
plink mac osx
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updated by Biostar Biostar • written by payupar • payupar

The program seems to be saying that a file called test.ped does not exist. Can you try

/Users/Pedro/plink-1-5.07-mac-intel/plink --file ./test
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written by GenoMax GenoMax

That command only works if test.ped/test.map are in your current directory. If they are in the same directory as your plink 1.07 binary, you'd need to use "--file /Users/Pedro/plink-1-5.07-mac-intel/test" .

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written by chrchang523 chrchang523

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