From 00e2488d879d281de8231e5ba5e991f2ee5b473b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:56:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes listed directories too, not just their contents. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.47.3