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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl unlink question Post 302090211 by cbkihong on Saturday 23rd of September 2006 09:35:59 AM
Old 09-23-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by jerardfjay
However when I use the unlink command the file does not get deleted.
The best way is to see the error message if any.

If you can reproduce the situation, try

Code:
unlink "file" or die $!;

and watch for the error message output. That should give you some idea.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

unlink

UNLINK(1)							   User Commands							 UNLINK(1)

NAME

       unlink - call the unlink function to remove the specified file

SYNOPSIS

       unlink FILE
       unlink OPTION

DESCRIPTION

       Call the unlink function to remove the specified FILE.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Michael Stone.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report unlink bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report unlink translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       unlink(2)

       The  full documentation for unlink is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and unlink programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'unlink invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb					  September 2011							 UNLINK(1)
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