Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

Manipulating Files and Directories

Tcl 7.6 added file operations to copy files, delete files, rename files, and create directories. In earlier versions it was necessary to exec other programs to do these things, except on Macintosh, where cp, rm, mv, mkdir, and rmdir were built in. These commands are no longer supported on the Macintosh. Your scripts should use the file command operations described below to manipulate files in a platform-independent way.

File name patterns are not directly supported by the file operations. Instead, you can use the glob command described on page 115 to get a list of file names that match a pattern.

Copying Files

The file copy operation copies files and directories. The following example copies file1 to file2