in reply to Running rpsblast on all files in directory, using perl
Given that your error msg mentions arguments starting with a dash and you precede argument d with an endash or emdash, I'd start by replacing it with a regular dash. Compare the following (not sure how they will turn out on your screen, but here are dash/endash/emdash):
-d/–d/—d
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