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.
[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: In PHP, one could use the following function to do the same: The Perl syntax is identical to the PHP syntax, save for the parentheses: In Node.js it is almost the same as the others: In R (with the S language compatibility): Similarly in Python: This computer data storage-related software article is a stub.