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

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

Andreas Kupries wrote:
> 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.

Please provide an example of this that this isn't better
handled with:
	set fd [open $filename w]

Jeff