English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

[Xah Lee]

Xah wrote:
«In the emacs case: “Recursive delete of xx? (y or n) ”, what could it
possibly mean by the word “recursive” there? Like, it might delete the
directory but not delete all files in it?
»

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> It might *try* to delete the directory but not any of its contents,
> yes.

you mean theoretically you see a possibility if the dir is implement
as stilted as unix, but never in your life you find yourself might
want to do it?

 Xah