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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-04-09 11:56:55 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-04-09 11:56:55 +0000
commit00e2488d879d281de8231e5ba5e991f2ee5b473b (patch)
tree27ceac059f10767eb3853921c1b1cdf47854eb06
parent113bb1ac7beabbe1bb83769b0d6f1299c4cc50b5 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-00e2488d879d281de8231e5ba5e991f2ee5b473b.tar.xz
(rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
listed directories too, not just their contents.
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 5904ac403..59cb74155 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7265,7 +7265,7 @@ Cancel the effect of any preceding @option{--preserve-root} option.
@opindex -R
@opindex --recursive
@cindex directories, removing (recursively)
-Remove the contents of directories recursively.
+Remove the listed directories and their contents recursively.
@item -v
@itemx --verbose