# Sharing a community provided dataset
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**Author:**  [@Raffal](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FRaffal)%5C
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsharing-a-community-provided-dataset%2F1338%2F1 "2020-10-01T14:09:26Z")
Hello,
I want to share my dataset, I’m following the instructions here:
> **[Sharing your dataset — datasets 1.0.2 documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/share_dataset.html#sharing-a-community-provided-dataset)**
I copied thins command in order to add the metadata:
python datasets-cli test datasets/ --save\_infos --all\_configs
but it gives me a syntax error each time
`[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘sample_data/’ /content/sample_data File “dataset-sharing.py”, line 6 python datasets-cli test datasets/sample_data --save_infos --all_configs ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax `
What is the correct way to specify the dataset folder?
thanks
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**Author:**  [@Karthik12](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FKarthik12)%5C
**Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 9:50am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsharing-a-community-provided-dataset%2F1338%2F2 "2020-10-02T09:50:26Z")
Hi,
In the link you shared, under “Adding tests and metadata to the dataset”, it says:
“In the rest of this section, you should make sure that you run all of the commands **from the root** of your local `datasets` repository.”
Since you are getting ‘No such file or directory’, are you running from the root?
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**Author:**  [@Raffal](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FRaffal)%5C
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 9:37am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsharing-a-community-provided-dataset%2F1338%2F3 "2020-10-04T09:37:35Z")
yes, I’m running from the root.
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**Author:**  [@Karthik12](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FKarthik12)%5C
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 10:49am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsharing-a-community-provided-dataset%2F1338%2F5 "2020-10-04T10:49:09Z")
Can you share your dataset loading script?