That worked! I've been looking at this error for many hours, so thank you so much for your time. Also, sorry that it was such a basic mistake. Thanks, Nicole On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:54 PM, Jesper Andersson < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi again, > > > indx="" > for ((i=1; i<=105; i+=1)); do indx="$indx 1"; done > echo $indx > index.txt > > > yes, that looks about right. But looking again at your eddy command it > looks like you have --index=index, but that your index file is in fact > called ‘index.txt'. It looks like eddy is looking for ‘index’, but cannot > find it. > > Jesper > > > As far as I can tell it is creating the file in the right place and seems > to have 105 ones in it. Any other ideas? > > Thanks again, > > Nicole > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Jesper Andersson < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear Nicole, >> >> > Could not open matrix file index >> > eddy: msg=--index must be an 1xN or Nx1 matrix where N is the number of >> volumes in --imain >> > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'EDDY::EddyException' >> > what(): eddy: msg=--index must be an 1xN or Nx1 matrix where N is the >> number of volumes in --imain >> > ./preprocessDTI.bash: line 7: 11805 Aborted (core >> dumped) fsl5.0-eddy --imain=${subj}_diffusion --mask=${subj}_unwarped_brain_mask >> --acqp=bubd_parameters --index=index --bvecs=~/Desktop/DRC/preprocess/${subj}/bvecs >> --bvals=~/Desktop/DRC/preprocess/${subj}/bvals >> --topup=${subj}_topup_results --out=${subj}_eddycorrected >> > >> > I thought I had my "index" text file set up correctly, it is currently >> a .txt file with 104*1 separated by spaces. Here's the output of fslinfo >> for the image in case that's helpful to know. >> > >> > data_type INT16 >> > dim1 104 >> > dim2 104 >> > dim3 72 >> > dim4 105 >> > datatype 4 >> > pixdim1 2.019231 >> > pixdim2 2.019231 >> > pixdim3 2.000000 >> > pixdim4 3.600000 >> > cal_max 0.0000 >> > cal_min 0.0000 >> > file_type NIFTI-1+ >> > >> >> if these numbers are all correct, it is quite easy. You have 105 volumes, >> but 104 ones in your index file. >> >> Jesper >> >> >> >> > If anyone has any advice as to what I've done wrong, that would be >> great. Thank you! >> > >> > Nicole >> > > >