I'm trying to loop kraken2 through a directory full of .fastq.gz files

e.g.

• file1.fastq.gz
• file2.fastq.gz
• file3.fastq.gz
• ...
• fileN.fastq.gz

using

for FILE in path/to/fastq/files/directory/*
do 
OUT=$(basename $FILE) kraken2 --db path/to/16S_SILVA138_k2db --threads 12 --use-names --gzip-compressed ${FILE} --output path/to/output/directory/${OUT}_kraken.txt --report path/to/output/directory/${OUT}_report.txt 
done

I would like to have a kracken output file and a report file for each sample individually e.g.

• file1_kracken.txt
• file1.report.txt
• ...
• fileN.report.txt
• fileN.report.txt

However, the only results Im getting in the output folder are two files (not two for each sample, two lonely files) named

_kraken.txt

and

_report.txt

For sure Im doing something wrong when setting up the loop and with OUT=$(basename $FILE)... Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

MW