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title: 'dav unlock'
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**`dav unlock [-pc] [-L <lock>] <url>`**
Unlocks the specified *url* with a lock token. If no lock token is specified with the `-L` option, it read from stdin.
**`-p`** disable file name and path decryption if enabled
**`-c`** enable file name and path decryption
**`-L <lock>`** use the specified lock token
### Example 1: unlock with lock token from stdin
$ dav lock myserv/resource > locktoken
$ dav unlock myserv/resource < locktoken
### Example 2: unlock with lock token from command line argument
$ dav lock myserv/resource
opaquelocktoken:0454905e-f2ff-45c4-a3d7-5c4e4db5ce37
$ dav unlock -L opaquelocktoken:0454905e-f2ff-45c4-a3d7-5c4e4db5ce37 myserv/resource