Function unlink

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Declaration:

int unlink(char file_name[]);

Description

Deletes a file.

unlink deletes the file specified by file_name. Any drive, path, and file name can be used as the filename. Wildcards are not allowed. This call cannot delete read-only files.

Note. If your file is open, be sure to close it before unlinking it.

Returned Value

On success, unlink returns 0. On error, it returns -1 and sets the errno global variable to one of the following values:

EACCES       Permission denied

ENOENT       Path or file name not found