fileutil(n) 1.8 fileutil "file utilities"
fileutil - Procedures implementing some file utilities
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package require Tcl 8
package require fileutil ?1.8?
This package provides implementations of standard unix utilities.
- ::fileutil::cat files
-
A tcl implementation of the UNIX cat command. Returns the
contents of the specified file(s). The arguments are files to read.
If there are problems reading any of the files, an error will occur,
and no data will be returned.
- ::fileutil::fileType filename
-
An implementation of the UNIX file command, which uses
various heuristics to guess the type of a file. Returns a list
specifying as much type information as can be determined about the
file, from most general (eg, "binary" or "text") to most specific (eg,
"gif"). For example, the return value for a GIF file would be "binary
graphic gif". The command will detect the following types of files:
directory, empty, binary, text, script (with interpreter), executable
elf, executable dos, executable ne, executable pe, graphic gif,
graphic jpeg, graphic png, graphic tiff, graphic bitmap, html,
xml (with doctype if available), message pgp, binary pdf, text ps,
text eps, binary gravity_wave_data_frame, compressed bzip,
compressed gzip, compressed zip, compressed tar, audio wave,
audio mpeg, and link.
- ::fileutil::find ?basedir ?filtercmd??
-
An implementation of the unix command find. Adapted from the
Tcler's Wiki. Takes at most two arguments, the path to the directory
to start searching from and a command to use to evaluate interest in
each file. The path defaults to ".", i.e. the current
directory. The command defaults to the empty string, which means that
all files are of interest. The command takes care not to
loose itself in infinite loops upon encountering circular link
structures. The result of the command is a list containing the paths
to the interesting files.
The filtercmd, if specified, is interpreted as a command prefix
and one argument is added to it, the name of the file or directory
find is currently looking at. Note that this name is not fully
qualified. It has to be joined it with the result of pwd to get
an absolute filename.
- ::fileutil::findByPattern basedir ?-regexp|-glob? ?--? patterns
-
This command is based upon the TclX command
recursive_glob, except that it doesn't allow recursion over more
than one directory at a time. It uses ::fileutil::find
internally and is thus able to and does follow symbolic links,
something the TclX command does not do. First argument is
the directory to start the search in, second argument is a list of
patterns. The command returns a list of all files reachable
through basedir whose names match at least one of the
patterns. The options before the pattern-list determine the style of
matching, either regexp or glob. glob-style matching is the default if
no options are given. Usage of the option -- stops option
processing. This allows the use of a leading '-' in the patterns.
- ::fileutil::foreachLine var filename cmd
-
The command reads the file filename and executes the script
cmd for every line in the file. During the execution of the
script the variable var is set to the contents of the current
line. The return value of this command is the result of the last
invocation of the script cmd or the empty string if the file was
empty.
- ::fileutil::grep pattern ?files?
-
Implementation of grep. Adapted from the Tcler's Wiki. The
first argument defines the pattern to search for. This is
followed by a list of files to search through. The list is
optional and stdin will be used if it is missing. The result
of the procedures is a list containing the matches. Each match is a
single element of the list and contains filename, number and contents
of the matching line, separated by a colons.
- ::fileutil::install ?-m mode? source destination
-
The install command is similar in functionality to the install
command found on many unix systems, or the shell script
distributed with many source distributions (unix/install-sh in the Tcl
sources, for example). It copies source, which can be either a
file or directory to destination, which should be a directory,
unless source is also a single file. The ?-m? option lets
the user specify a unix-style mode (either octal or symbolic - see
file attributes.
- ::fileutil::stripN path n
-
Removes the first n elements from the specified path and
returns the modified path. If n is greater than the number of
components in path an empty string is returned. The number of
components in a given path may be determined by performing
llength on the list returned by file split.
- ::fileutil::stripPwd path
-
If, and only if the path is inside of the directory returned by
[pwd] (or the current working directory itself) it is made
relative to that directory. In other words, the current working
directory is stripped from the path. The possibly modified path
is returned as the result of the command. If the current working
directory itself was specified for path the result is the string
".".
- ::fileutil::stripPath prefix path
-
If, and only of the path is inside of the directory
"prefix" (or the prefix directory itself) it is made relative to
that directory. In other words, the prefix directory is stripped from
the path. The possibly modified path is returned as the result
of the command.
If the prefix directory itself was specified for path the result
is the string ".".
- ::fileutil::jail jail path
-
This command ensures that the path is not escaping the directory
jail. It always returns an absolute path derived from path
which is within jail.
If path is an absolute path and already within jail it is
returned unmodified.
An absolute path outside of jail is stripped of its root element
and then put into the jail by prefixing it with it. The same
happens if path is relative, except that nothing is stripped of
it. Before adding the jail prefix the path is lexically
normalized to prevent the caller from using .. segments in
path to escape the jail.
- ::fileutil::touch ?-a? ?-c? ?-m? ?-r ref_file? ?-t time? filename ?...?
-
Implementation of touch. Alter the atime and mtime of the
specified files. If -c, do not create files if they do not
already exist. If -r, use the atime and mtime from
ref_file. If -t, use the integer clock value
time. It is illegal to specify both -r and
-t. If -a, only change the atime. If -m,
only change the mtime.
This command is not available for Tcl versions less than 8.3.
- ::fileutil::tempdir
-
The command returns the path of a directory where the caller can
place temporary files, such as "/tmp" on Unix systems. The
algorithm we use to find the correct directory is as follows:
-
The directory named in the TMPDIR environment variable.
-
The directory named in the TEMP environment variable.
-
The directory named in the TMP environment variable.
-
A platform specific location:
- Windows
-
"C:\TEMP", "C:\TMP", "\TEMP",
and "\TMP" are tried in that order.
- (classic) Macintosh
-
The TRASH_FOLDER environment variable is used. This is most likely
not correct.
- Unix
-
The directories "/tmp", "/var/tmp", and "/usr/tmp" are
tried in that order.
The algorithm utilized is that used in the Python standard library.
- ::fileutil::tempfile ?prefix?
-
The command generates a temporary file name suitable for writing to,
and the associated file. The file name will be unique, and the file
will be writable and contained in the appropriate system specific temp
directory. The name of the file will be returned as the result of the
command.
The code was taken from http://wiki.tcl.tk/772, attributed to
Igor Volobouev and anon.
file utilities, grep, temp file, touch, type