unlink
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]unlink (third-person singular simple present unlinks, present participle unlinking, simple past and past participle unlinked)
- (transitive) To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
- (transitive, computing, Unix) To delete (a file).
- 2001, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 175:
- That's because the permission to unlink a file doesn't depend upon the permission bits on the file itself; it's the permission bits on the directory that contains the file that matter.
Translations
[edit]to decouple an item
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to delete a file
Noun
[edit]unlink (plural unlinks)