From 785c660432a4740b1b4e8d9810298cf6effc8abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.zzz@sudheer.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:57:38 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify recursive

If recursive is set to yes, the module changes the attributes of the directory recursively even though state: directory is not set.
---
 lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py b/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py
index 7a78c7d392d..ce663dd5076 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ options:
         relative and nonexisting paths. Relative paths are not expanded.
   recurse:
     description:
-      - recursively set the specified file attributes (applies only to state=directory)
+      - recursively set the specified file attributes (applies only to directories)
     type: bool
     default: 'no'
     version_added: "1.1"