rm: cannot remove ‘/home/meteo/Build_WRF/DATA/WRF/greece-9km/2016042112/wps/FILE:*’: No such file or directory

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

system("rm dir/FILE:*");
my $err = $?;
print "Error is $err\n";

# Output is:
rm: cannot remove ‘dir/FILE:*’: No such file or directory
Error is 256

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

foreach my $file (glob("dir/FILE:*")) {
    if (!unlink($file)) {
        print "Warning:  failed to remove file '$file' ($!)\n";
    }
}