Metgrid and Ungrib output files with special characters?

[Matt]

Hello,
I am sorry if this has been answered before but I can't find it.

When I run metgrid and ungrib I get files output with names like:
FILE2016-10-06_00
met_em.d01.2016-10-06_000000.nc

And when I try run real.exe I get:
-------------- FATAL CALLED ---------------
FATAL CALLED FROM FILE: <stdin> LINE: 409
error opening met_em.d01.2016-10-06_00_00_00.nc for input; bad date in namelist or file not in directory
-------------------------------------------
-------------- FATAL CALLED ---------------
FATAL CALLED FROM FILE: <stdin> LINE: 409
error opening met_em.d01.2016-10-06_00_00_00.nc for input; bad date in namelist or file not in directory
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I assume because the input files have  in them? I do not want to manually rename them so if anyone can help that would be much appreciated, thanks!

Namelists below in case they are needed

 

[Islen Vallejo-Henao]

Hello.

In namelist.wps under &share set nocolons = .false.
In namelist.input under &time_control set nocolons = .false

 

[Ming Chen]

Matt,
Does the 'nocolons' option solve your problem?
I never saw such model behavior before.....
Please keep me updated if you solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

 

[Matt]

Matt,
Does the 'nocolons' option solve your problem?
I never saw such model behavior before.....
Please keep me updated if you solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

Hello,
Yes it did solve my problem! I am running WRF on Ubuntu WSL and windows does not like colons in the file names