UNLINK(1) General Commands Manual UNLINK(1)

unlink — call the unlink() function

unlink file

The unlink utility performs the function call:

unlink(file);

A user may need appropriate privilege to invoke the unlink utility.

None.

The following operands are supported:

file
The pathname of an existing file.

Not used.

Not used.

The following environment variables affect the execution of unlink :

Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the implementation-dependent default locale will be used. If any of the internationalization variables contain an invalid setting, the utility will behave as if none of the variables had been set.
If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.
Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single- as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
Determine the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .

Default.

None.

Used only for diagnostic messages.

None.

None.

The following exit values are returned:

Successful completion.
An error occurred.

Default.

None.

None.

None.

link(1) , rm(1) , the XSH specification description of unlink(3) .

February 1997 posix.fail