Re: is tcl a reasonable alternative to unix shell scripts?

Charles Russell wrote:
Bruce Hartweg wrote:
Charles Russell wrote:
Jeff Godfrey wrote:
I note that python and ruby have equivalents to the unix "find"
command, but I cannot find on skimming the tcl documentation that it
has a good set of tools for manipulating the file system.

Hi Charles,

Tcl has a library of "common" functions and utilities known as
"tcllib". While it's not part of the "core" of tcl, it's readily
available and easy to load and use.
<snip>
What is the command
syntax to test my tcllib installation by invoking, for example,
fileutil::cat under tclsh?

see the man page for package, but it is simply

package require fileutil
fileutil::cat $file

Thanks. I evidently have a corrupted installation or configuration:

$ tclsh
% package require fileutil
can't find package fileutil

I don't think you have a corrupted installation, simply you don't have
tcllib installed.


I need tcllib to run under cygwin, which is not one of the platforms
supported by activestate. tcl/tk is running fine, so the fix is
probably simple, but I am an absolute beginner, so I'll try to get help
from the cygwin mailing list.

Normally on windows I'd strongly recommend running Tcl native by
installing the Activestate distro but I guess you have good reasons for
using cygwin. In which case you can download Tcllib from sourceforge:
http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/

To install tcllib simply untar it and do the usual ./configure; make
install (or run the installer.tcl script, in any case read the
INSTALL.txt file). You may need to change --prefix if you have tcl
installed in strange places.

.

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