UNLINK(1)

💅 unlink(1) — the "bestie, this file is GONE" manual page

ok so picture this: you're in the terminal, you want a file to ✨stop existing✨, and you don't need a whole dramatic production about it. That's unlink. It's the tiny little cutie of a command that does one (1) thing and does it flawlessly. Not me being obsessed with a single-syscall wrapper… 🙈 it's giving minimalist icon behaviour and honestly? Slay.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

unlink — Unlink the file at FILE.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

unlink FILE
unlink OPTION

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Unlink the file at FILE.

That's it. That's the whole personality. No flags for recursion, no prompts, no small talk — you hand it a FILE, it unlinks that FILE. Lowkey the most honest command in the whole toolbox. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — prints the help. You know, for when you want the command to explain itself instead of ✨unlinking✨ things.
• -V, --version — prints the version. Receipts! Proof of which build you're running, bestie. 🧾

🌈 VERSION 🌈

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Remove the specified file if it is the last link:

unlink path/to/file

🫶 The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project https://tldr.sh under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.

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⚠️ bestie, real talk: this deletes things. For real. No undo, no recycle bin, no "wait, what did I just do" moment until after it's done. Vibe check your path before you hit enter. 😭

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manual page for unlink, from the General Commands Manual, dated 2026-09-25 — page UNLINK(1), if you're keeping track 💜 hope that was iconic for you, mwah 😘💅