diff --git a/exercises/Pangenome_analysis/panaroo.sh b/exercises/Pangenome_analysis/panaroo.sh
index 5de027a39a05c95fd789836045f9ea76cd4ec286..b8a788f44a15c58d426d46ed9c8ab748134850d3 100644
--- a/exercises/Pangenome_analysis/panaroo.sh
+++ b/exercises/Pangenome_analysis/panaroo.sh
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ mkdir -p panaroo/panaroo_output
 # generate soft links to the .gff files while looping through the sample names
 for sample_id in "${array[@]}"
 do
+	echo $sample_id
 	ln -s $wd/$sample_id/prokka_annotation/$sample_id.gff $wd/panaroo/annotation_files/
 done