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`unlink`

Call the unlink() function to delete a file

Syntax:

unlink file

Options:

file: The pathname of an existing file.

Description:

The unlink utility is a command-line interface to the unlink() function:

(void)unlink( file );

Only the superuser may use the unlink utility. Only the superuser may unlink a directory, and then only if the filesystem allows it (see _PC_LINK_DIR in the description of pathconf() in the Library Reference).

Exit status:

0: Successful completion.
> 0: An error occurred.

Caveats:

The unlink command can be very dangerous to your filesystem; you should probably use rm or rmdir instead.