On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Mark wrote:
> 
> I must say, though, that while I understand this behaviour, one can argue on
> what exactly "recursive" is to mean here. Intuitively, the definition of
> "the current sub-directory and all sub-directories below the current
> directory (and that for each subdirectory)" seems the correct one. Which
> would exclude "..", as this is not a sub-directory of the current directory,
> but the parent.

Not really.  It recurses through the directories named on the command line,
of which '..' happens to be one.

Ceri
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