[Info-vax] DCL Syntax

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-08-30 21:32, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 8/30/18 6:30 AM, John Reagan wrote:
>> On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 7:21:44 AM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
>>> But where *nix uses -r or -R, VMS just uses recursive filespecs. Where
>>> you would say grep -R on Unix, you don't say SEARCH/RECURSIVE on VMS --
>>> just SEARCH [...].
>>
>> Then why not just DELETE [...]*.*;*
> 
> That already means something a bit different doesn't it? Changing a
> command that does *not* delete non-empty directories into a command that
> *does* delete non-empty directories might satisfy the API consistency
> police but would probably cause some unwelcome surprises for some folks.

True. But it is a bit weird. It only deletes empty directories.
Non-empty directories it instead tries to makes empty...

   Johnny

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