I've written a script that, at one point, creates a temporary directory, creates a symlink of a file in that directory, then does some other stuff. After performing some unrelated stuff, it uses unlink to delete the symlink. Or, that's what I was hoping would happen. Instead, unlink reports in $! that the file does not exist. Here's a snippet from my code: 

# This part works beautifully...

$pathToFiles = '/home/pencilneckgeek/files';
$tempDir = '/home/pencilneckgeek/tmp/' + random(10000);

mkdir($tempDir) or die "mkdir: $!\n";

$origFile = "$pathToFiles/theFile.txt";
$theLink  = "$tempDir/theFile.txt";

symlink($origFile, $theLink) or die "symlink: $!\n";

# do some stuff...
...
# now, here's where the problem lies...

unlink($theLink) or die "unlink: $!";

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which dies at the unlink, reporting "unlink: No such file or directory" $theLink doesn't change at all at any point in the code - the file's path/name is simply sent off to another program (which currently does nothing)... Any ideas?

In reply to unlink unworking by maloi

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