English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

> 〈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”?
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> [...]
>
> Though, if you think about it, it's not exactly a correct description.
> “Recursive”, or “recursion”, refers to a particular type of algorithm, 
> [...]
Indeed. And the algorithms that are employed to perform the operations 
so described are recursive.