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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:10:11 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: wolftoy@ix.netcom.com
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: unlink
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On Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 12:58:01AM -0600, Wolf Toy wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 	I have linked two directories together using ln

Hopefully ln -s.

> and know I need to unlink them but I can't find unlink(If this is
> even the right command I need).

The system call is called unlink(2), but the command is rm(1) (for
files and symbolic links) and rmdir(1) for directories.  If you've
used ln -s, you have a symbolic link, not a directory, so you want to
use rm(1).

Greg