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PERL unlink Function


Syntax

unlink LIST

unlink


Definition and Usage

Deletes the files specified by LIST, or the file specified by $_ otherwise. Be careful while using this function because there is no recovering once a file gets deleted.

Return Value

  • Number of files deleted.

Example

Create two files t1.txt and t2.txt in /tmp directory and then use the following program to delete these two files.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

unlink( "/tmp/t1.txt", "/tmp/t2.txt" );

It will produce following results:

Both the files t1.txt and t2.txt will be deleted from /tmp.

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