[Tcllib-devel] More file utilities ?

[Andreas K. <aku...@sh...>]

I have (over time) collected a set of convenient commands operating
on/with whole files which seem to belong directly into either the
fileutil namespace, or a related namespace, like 'fileutil::FOO'.

Unfortunately I also have trouble to find a proper name for FOO. Note
that we also might wish to change their names when they go into their
namespace, to remove redundancies ('file'), or have their final names
reflect their behavior more correctly (touch, hack_file).

Below are the commands collected so far. I would like to get opinions
on whether these commands should really be put into Tcllib, and if
yes, where.

	getfile PATH

		Returns contents of file. Assumes that file is text,
		and in system encoding.

		I.e. loads the file completely into memory

	putfile PATH TEXT

		Writes text as the new content of the file.
		Note: Does _not_ add a traling \n to the data.

	touch PATH

		Creates empty file at PATH. Deletes any pre-existing
		file in this location.

	appendto PATH DATA

		See putfile, but appends the data to existing
		content. Returns the location of the first character
		of the appended data in the file.

	insertat PATH AT DATA

		Inserts data at offset AT into the file.

	removeat PATH AT N

		Removes N characters from the file, starting at
		offset AT.

	hack_file PATH KEY VAL ...

		Takes the list of keys and values and applies them to
		the contents of the file, via [string map].

	hack_file_copy PATHin PATHout KEY VAL ...

		Like hack_file, but writes the result to a different
		file.


-- 
So long,
	Andreas Kupries <aku...@sh...>
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