unlink (Unix)

<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
<p>To delete a file named <i>foo</i>, one could type:
</p>
% unlink foo

<p>In <a href="/facts/PHP/vU6YRJX0">PHP</a>, one could use the following function to do the same:
</p>
unlink("foo");

<p>The <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a> syntax is identical to the PHP syntax, save for the parentheses:
</p>
unlink "foo";

<p>In <a href="/facts/Node.js/FKzhV4Qa">Node.js</a> it is almost the same as the others:
</p>
fs.unlink("foo", callback);

<p>In <a href="/facts/R_(programming_language)/LSrkr8K8">R</a> (with the <a href="/facts/S_(programming_language)/VTG29WnE">S</a> language compatibility):
</p>
unlink("foo") 
#Comment: using the inside argument 'recursive = TRUE', directories can be deleted

<p>Similarly in Python:
</p>
os.unlink("foo")

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_Unix_commands/EEuIsUx9">List of Unix commands</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Link_(Unix)/0Y1Cb1Az">link (Unix)</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ln_(Unix)/Ioq2y31h">ln (Unix)</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1"><p>"GNU Coreutils: unlink invocation". www.gnu.org. <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/unlink-invocation.html" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/unlink-invocation.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"unlink". pubs.opengroup.org. <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/unlink.html" target="_blank">https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/unlink.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Differences Between rm and unlink Commands | Baeldung on Linux at archive.today (archived 2024-12-18) <a href="https://archive.today/20241218171826/https://www.baeldung.com/linux/rm-vs-unlink" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20241218171826/https://www.baeldung.com/linux/rm-vs-unlink</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"PHP: unlink - Manual". php.net. <a href="https://php.net/unlink" target="_blank">https://php.net/unlink</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"unlink - perldoc.perl.org". perldoc.perl.org. <a href="https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/unlink.html" target="_blank">https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/unlink.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"File System - Node.js v13.0.1 Documentation". nodejs.org. <a href="https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_unlink_path_callback" target="_blank">https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_unlink_path_callback</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>"os — Miscellaneous operating system interfaces — Python 3.8.0 documentation". python.org. <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.unlink" target="_blank">https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.unlink</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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