English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

[John Nagle]

On 5/17/2011 3:26 PM, Xah Lee wrote:
> might be of interest.
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> 〈English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively〉
> http://xahlee.org/comp/idiom_directory_recursively.html
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> English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively
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> Xah Lee, 2011-05-17
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> Today, let's discuss something in the category of lingustics.
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> 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