English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

[Espen Vestre]

Hans Georg Schaathun <hg at schaathun.net> writes:

> On Unix, the directory is just a file, listing other files by name
> and disk location.  Then it is perfectly natural (although very
> rarely smart) to delete a directory without any concequences to the
> contents.  

Ironically, the only unix I know of where this makes a lot of sense is
Mac OS X (where multiple hard links to a single directory is utilised by
TimeMachine to minimise the size of incremental backup trees) :-)
-- 
  (espen)