On Unix-like operating systems, the unlink command calls and directly interfaces with the unlink system function, which removes a specified file.
This page covers the GNU/Linux version of unlink.
Syntax
unlink FILE
unlink OPTION
Options
Examples
unlink hope.txt
Removes the file name hope.txt, and if there is no other hard link to the file data, the file data itself is removed from the system.
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link — Create a hard link to a regular file.
