Mapping folder with survey.tsv to /data

[Daniel J Wilson]

Hi, I'm trying to get a bit more familiar with Expfactory and so was attempting to generate my own survey following these instructions.

I created the required config.json and survey.tsv files in a local folder and attempted to run:

$ docker run -v $PWD:/data expfactory/survey-generator start

This gave the error:

You must map the folder with your survey.tsv to /data

Which seems to be referred to by the note in the directions:

we map the $PWD (or where our survey and config are) to /data in the container

However, I am not sure how we do this mapping? Is there any guidance on this?

Thanks!

[Vanessasaurus]

Try running that same command but instead list files at /data to see if it's there. Either of these will probably do the trick:

docker run -it -v $PWD:/data --entrypoint bash expfactory/survey-generator ls /data
docker run -it -v $PWD:/data --entrypoint ls expfactory/survey-generator /data

[Vanessasaurus]

Sometimes with environment variable binds, if you don't add the ending slash (e.g., $PWD/) it treats it as a named volume. So you could try adding that.

[Daniel J Wilson]

Thanks for quick reply!

Running:

docker run -it -v $PWD:/data --entrypoint bash expfactory/survey-generator ls /data

gave:

/bin/ls: /bin/ls: cannot execute binary file

But running:

docker run -it -v $PWD:/data --entrypoint ls expfactory/survey-generator /data

gave:

config.json  survey.tsv

Which seems to have solved the problem...thanks!

[Vanessasaurus]

Sure thing!