unlinks

Verb

unlink (third-person singular simple present unlinks, present participle unlinking, simple past and past participle unlinked)

1. (transitive) To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
2. (Unix, transitive) To delete (a file).
   • 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.2001, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 175

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