English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

[rantingrick]

On May 18, 3:00 pm, Xah Lee <xah... at gmail.com> 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?

Actually i think this case is more for "scare factor" than anything.
As in... Do you really want to destroy all these files FOREVER AND
EVER or did your mouse finger slip... again?