Finding all files in a directory
August Karlstrom
What is the standard way in TCL to get a list of all files in a
directory and its subdirectories?
Regards,
August
Darren New
> What is the standard way in TCL to get a list of all files in a
> directory and its subdirectories?
package require fileutil
fileutil::find
(Requires Tcllib installed.)
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August Karlstrom
> August Karlstrom wrote:
>> What is the standard way in TCL to get a list of all files in a
>> directory and its subdirectories?
>
> package require fileutil
> fileutil::find
>
> (Requires Tcllib installed.)
>
Works like a charm. Thanks.
August
Cameron Laird
Darren New <dn...@san.rr.com> wrote:
>August Karlstrom wrote:
>> What is the standard way in TCL to get a list of all files in a
>> directory and its subdirectories?
>
>package require fileutil
>fileutil::find
>
>(Requires Tcllib installed.)
.
.
Keep in mind a couple of factors that reduce the scariness
common with "requires X installed":
A. ActiveTcl, now widely used, provides Tcllib;
and
B. the current copy of fileutil.tcl is under 700
lines of pure-Tcl, and that includes a lot of
comments, so it's not hard to just pull in a
copy of *that* alone, if you prefer (note,
though, that fileutil itself requires cmdline).
Tom Conner
"August Karlstrom" <fusio...@comhem.se> wrote in message
news:ebD8i.1254$ZA....@newsb.telia.net...
> Hi everyone,
>
> What is the standard way in TCL to get a list of all files in a
> directory and its subdirectories?
>
glob
http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/glob.htm
I have to admit, that is one non-intuitive command name. One would think
there would be a "file" command that accomplishes that task.
bill...@alum.mit.edu
does more than the OP needs. The glob command, which is part of the
core, is the standard way to list all files in a directory.
suchenwi
> glob
>
> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/glob.htm
>
> I have to admit, that is one non-intuitive command name. One would think
> there would be a "file" command that accomplishes that task.
Well, it's a C standard library function:
The glob() function is a pathname generator that implements the rules
for file name pattern matching used by the shell.
See e.g. http://www.hmug.org/man/3/glob.php
Donal K. Fellows
The original poster asked for "all files in a directory and its
subdirectories"; so fileutil::find is absolutely the right thing.
Donal.
iu2
I like for_recursive_glob from Tclx (there is also just
recursive_glob).
bill...@alum.mit.edu
wrote:
Ah, that depends on whether the OP's request contains an implicit
"recursively".
If it does, yes, fileutil::find is right. If it doesn't, glob * */*
does the job.
Bill
August Karlstrom
You are right, after rereading my posting I realise I should have added
the word "recursively".
Thank you all for your helpful answers.
August