From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:56:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~1067
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=00e2488d879d281de8231e5ba5e991f2ee5b473b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
listed directories too, not just their contents.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 5904ac4039..59cb741558 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