How to safely delete a symlink?

Question

This is my symlink:

export -> /home/company/test/var/export/

I tried to delete it with rm export/

Output: rm: cannot remove ‘export/’: Is a directory

So I tried unlink: unlink export/

Output: unlink: cannot unlink ‘export/’: Not a directory

Answer 1

The problem is the trailing slash.

rm export/ fails

rm export works <--