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Perl Programming/Keywords/unlink

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unlink deletes a LIST of files and returns the number of files successfully deleted. If it is unsuccessful, it it returns false and sets $! to the error number (errno).

Syntax

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  unlink LIST

Example

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my $unlinked = unlink 'a', 'b', 'c';
unlink @files;
unlink glob "*.pl";

See also

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