How to detach a policy from an IAM user

Use the below command to detach an attached policy from an IAM user where username is the name of the user and arn:aws:iam::123456789123:policy/POLICYNAME is the arn of the policy being detached.

aws iam detach-user-policy --user-name username --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789123:policy/POLICYNAME

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