this is the error I received Error HH601: Script scripts/deploy.js doesn’t exist. I am a total beginner and have tried many different options and none have worked
I was opening a hardhat node and that went fine but when I go to run the npx hardhat run scripts is when I encountered this error code

npm install –save-dev @nomiclabs/hardhat-waffle ethereum-waffle chai @nomiclabs/hardhat-ether ethers

I am trying to verify and submit my contract source code to etherscan using hardhat but I am running into the following error and I do not understand how to resolve the error. I’ve read through the code and I cannot spot what I am doing incorrectly. Please can someone advise?