On 5/17/2011 3:26 PM, Xah Lee wrote:
might be of interest.
〈English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/idiom_directory_recursively.html
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English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively
Xah Lee, 2011-05-17
Today, let's discuss something in the category of lingustics.
You know how in unix tools, when you want to delete the whole
directory and all sub-directories and files in it, it's referred as
“recursive”?
The proper terminology is "subtree", "subfolder", or "subdirectory".
John Nagle
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