my @ctl = glob("/users/sophix/Desktop/prottest3/prottest3/*.aa"); my ($ctltrimmed, $ctlfile, $ctlfiletrimmed); foreach my $ctlfile (@ctl) { if ($ctlfile =~ m/prottest3\/prottest3\/(\S+).aa$/) {$ctlfiletrimmed = $1;} my $out = system("/users/sophix/Desktop/prottest3/prottest3/java.exe -jar prottest-3.0.jar -i " . $ctltrimmed . "-t " . $ctltrimmed . "\.trees" . "-o " . $ctltrimmed . "\.out" . "-all -verbose -all-matrices -threads 3 -G -F -all-distributions -ncat 4"); }