unlink
Verb
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Verb
unlink (unlinks, present participle unlinking; past and past participle unlinked)
- (transitive) To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
- (transitive, computing, Unix) To delete (a file).
- 2001, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (ISBN 9780596551926), page 175:
- That's because the permission to unlink a file doesn't depend upon the permission bits on the file itself; it's the permission bits on the directory that contains the file that matter.
- 2001, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (ISBN 9780596551926), page 175:
- Portuguese: desligar, desvincular
- Russian: отсоединить
unlink (plural unlinks)
- (math, knot theory) A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.
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