Re: [Tcllib-devel] More file utilities ?

[Damon C. <da...@tc...>]

Joe English wrote:
> Andreas Kupries wrote:
>
>   
>> 	touch PATH
>> 		Creates empty file at PATH. Deletes any pre-existing
>> 		file in this location.
>>     
>
> For Unix users, "touch" would be a _very bad_ name for this operation --
> the shell command `touch` only updates the modification time
> of existing files, it doesn't truncate them.
>   

    And creates them if they don't exist.  I actually think touch is 
very useful, but only if it conforms to what the UNIX touch already 
does.  As Joe stated, it definitely DOES NOT truncate or delete a file.

Damon