Unlink or Remove a Symbolic link in Linux

January 5, 2009 | By Fabio Milano In CentOS,Fedora,Linux,Tutorial |

Scenario / Question:

How to unlink or remove a symbolic in linux that was created with ln

Solution / Answer:

Use the unlink command

To unlink a symbolic link file :

# unlink symbolic_link_file

To unlink a symbolic link to a directory :

# unlink symbolic_link_dir

When unlinking a directory make sure that you do not include the trailing forward slash:

Wrong:

# unlink myDirectory/

Correct:

# unlink myDirectory
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Fabio Milano has written 79 articles for us. Fabio Milano is a certified RHCE, MCP, and CFOI. He runs an IT consulting and services company called RDS Support inc. Website:http://www.rdssupport.com

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    2 Comments so far

    1. marcelo on February 11th, 2011

      thanks man.

    2. Asturiego on October 6th, 2011

      I get a message that says, “unlink: cannot unlink `/directory to unlink’: Is a directory

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