S3 purge documentation improvement

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Hello!

It's not obvious, that when you purge a directory on s3 using rclone, all data, including versions are deleting too.

For example, there is only information about deleting versions when you delete a bucket, not a directory.
In my case, I found a rmdir command, which clearly redirect me to purge, if I want to delete all content of folder. IMHO, it must redirect user to delete command, instead of purge, because of big difference, when you completely delete a folder, with all versions.

I suggest improving a documentation about difference between delete and purge, because we already have an incident, when files were deleted without opportunity to be restored, because of deleted versions on S3. Information about versions deleting must be underlined.

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welcome to the forum,

i had asked the same question and here is the answer.

https://forum.rclone.org/t/how-to-suggest-a-change-to-rclone-documentation/12384

for purge command

  1. log into github
  2. goto https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/docs/content/commands/rclone_purge.md
  3. click the pencil icon
  4. make your proposed changes
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