I'm trying to run trim galore on multiple files (24), but I haven't gotten it to work. The code I'm using is:

 trim_galore /home/name/sequences -j 4 *.fastq.gz -o /home/name --paired

The last message produced is:

Output will be written into the directory: /home/name/
Input file '/home/name/sequences' seems to be completely empty. Consider respecifying!

I know for sure the folder is not empty. All the files are zipped (.fastq.gz). I made a separate folder with unzipped files (.fastq), and it's the same result. I've moved the position of --paired, because I saw somewhere it might work, but it didn't.

I'm running Linux Ubuntu on my Windows computer.