RE: [Tcllib-devel] More file utilities ? [touch]

[Andreas K. <andreask@ActiveState.com>]

Ok, all of you commenting on [touch] are heading into the wrong direction.

I provided a name and a functionality, and you are now apparently trying to
change the functionality to match the name, or pointing out that we have
'touch' ion fileutil already. I asked, albeit apparently not very clearly,
to _change the name_ of the command to match the functionality.

I quote:

> have their final names
> reflect their behavior more correctly (touch, hack_file).

Having slept on this I believe the proper name for the described
functionality is 'clear'.

	If the file exists, clear its contents, make it empty.
	And if it doesn't exist, create it as empty.

Hemang's comment about creating the directory leading to the file is correct
however. I agree that this is something the command should do, given my
description. This was no problem for me so far because it was not used in
context where the directory would not exist.


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