〈English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively〉
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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”?
[...]
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.
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