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In Unix-like operating systems, unlink is a system call and a command line utility to delete files. The program directly interfaces the system call, which removes the file name and (but not on GNU systems) directories like rm and rmdir.[1] If the file name was the last hard link to the file, the file itself is deleted as soon as no program has it open.[2]
It also appears in the PHP, Node.js, R, Perl and Python standard libraries in the form of the unlink() built-in function. Like the Unix utility, it is also used to delete files.[3][4][5][6]
To delete a file named foo, one could type:
% unlink foo
In PHP, one could use the following function to do the same:
unlink("foo");
The Perl syntax is identical to the PHP syntax, save for the parentheses:
unlink "foo";
In Node.js it is almost the same as the others:
fs.unlink("foo", callback);
In R (with the S language compatibility):
unlink("foo")
#Comment: using the inside argument 'recursive = TRUE', directories can be deleted
Similarly in Python:
os.unlink("foo")
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