How to unlink/delete a symbolic in Linux

In my earlier post I had shown you in detail the steps to create a soft link and hard link in Linux. If you have missed it you can read about the same in below link
How to create Soft Link (Symlink) and Hard Link in Linux

In this post I will show you simple steps to unlink the symlink

Suppose you have a link as shown below
# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root  4096 Sep 12 13:55 Desktop
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     7 Jan 10 23:34 shortcut -> Desktop
Here shortcut is a symlink for Desktop

Method 1
NOTE: Always remember you have to remove the shortcut link which is created and not the original directory.
# rm shortcut

NOTE: symlink is the one which you will see in blue colour

Method 2
# unlink shortcut/
unlink: cannot unlink `shortcut/': Not a directory
# unlink shortcut

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