bwa mem problem with Illumina sequence

Question

[sevillaro1970]

hi I have a problem with my bwa mem, I have to aligner a sample to run in Illumina. people told me that I have to add this line @RG\tID:'"$i"'\tLB:'"$i"'\tSM:'"$i"'\tPL:ILLUMINA' , where de symbol $I is my sample but the program doest work and always send me a message

Usage: bwa mem [options] <idxbase> <in1.fq> [in2.fq]
$ bwa mem -t 3 ~/Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.dna.primary_assembly.fa -R '@RG\tID:'"$1545906_17296"'\tLB:'"$1545906_17296"'\tSM:'"$1545906_17296"'\tPL:ILLUMINA' / ~/17296_R1trim_cut.fastq  ~/17296_R2trim_cut.fastq > ~bwa1545906_17296.sam

anybody can help me

[h.mon]

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[finswimmer]

Hello,

take care of the order of your arguments. At first there must be the options (-tand -R), than the reference sequence and at the end the fastq files.

fin swimmer

[Joe]

What are you trying to do (with that string in particular?), and what error is it giving you?