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| Jan 1, 2013 at 17:10 | comment | added | Ben Voigt |
Those aren't really distinct meanings. Both are useful for processing all files or directories inside a filesystem, including those nested many directories deep. In fact, if a shell script function were to expose a -r option, it would probably use recursive function calls to implement it.
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| Dec 28, 2012 at 1:09 | history | answered | solvingPuzzles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |