Ok, Took the advice and made a few changes ... :)

I could not get the "when" usage to work!
Running at least Perl v5.16.0
Tried as described in perlsys

So the latest version.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

#  **
#  * BCE 42.
#  * Read a list of file names from a file and delete them.
#  **
#
#  **
#  * It is what it is, you can do with it as you please. [with respect
+, leave the credits]
#  *
#  * Just don't blame me if it teaches your computer to smoke!
#  *
#  *  -Enjoy
#  *  fh :)_~
#  **
#
#  ** Example clean.list
#  * : Everything after a : and blank lines are ignored
#  * : Wildcards are valid, be careful.
#  * :
#  *
#  * install_manifest.txt
#  * cmake_install.cmake
#  * CMakeCache*
#  * examples/*.a
#  **

use File::Basename;

my $Prog   = "cmake -E";
my $RmDir  = "remove_directory";
my $RmFile = "remove -f";
my $RmLink = "remove -f";

sub runCommand
{
    return `$Prog $_[0] \"$_[1]\"` if $_[0] && $_[1];
    return -1;
}

sub cleanup_Link    # non Win32
{
    print "Deleting Link: $_[0]";
    runCommand($RmLink, $_[0]);
    print " ... Deleted!" if not -l $_[0];
    print "\n";
}

sub cleanup_Dir
{
    print "Deleting Dir : $_[0]";
    runCommand($RmDir, $_[0]);
    print " ... Deleted!" if not -d $_[0];
    print "\n";
}

sub cleanup_File
{
    print "Deleting File: $_[0]";
    runCommand($RmFile, $_[0]);
    print " ... Deleted!" if not -f $_[0];
    print "\n";
}

sub cleanup
{
    for (glob qq("$_[0]")) {
        cleanup_Link($_) if -l;        # non Win32
        cleanup_Dir ($_) if -d _;
        cleanup_File($_) if -f _;
    }
}

sub main
{
    my $Dir = dirname(__FILE__);

    open(FILE, "$Dir/clean.list") or die("Unable to open file: $Dir/cl
+ean.list.");
    my @Data = <FILE>;
    close(FILE);

    foreach my $line (@Data) {
        next if $line =~ /^$/;  # skip blank lines
        next if $line =~ /:/;   # skip comment lines with ':' (colon) 
+in them
        chomp $line;        # trim the newline
        cleanup($line);
    }
}

main();
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Critiques ??
Comments ??
Suggestions ??
Improvements ??

Thanks

-Enjoy
fh : )_~