Other procs that would be useful to add would include wc, tee, head, tail, and perhaps some AWK'ish type functions ala Tclx.
LV: Anyone have a Tcl version of the dircmp command [L1 ]? I don't see it in the cygwin package list, and when I did a casual search on google.
VI 2003-11-28: Nice of you to ask. There's a list above, other than that: tail -f, split, join. I use tkcon as my main shell on a wimpy laptop. Fewer dlls loaded is good..
LV: I think some procs emulating functionality (not necessary flags, etc.) of Unix commands such as:
cut - extract one or more columns of text from the input file
join - create the union of one or more files containing columns of data, using a common column as an index
sort - sort a file based on the contents of one or more columns
comm - extract rows of data common, or uncommon, between 2 or more files
uniq - extract unique rows (or count the occurances of unique rows) in a file
would be useful. Several of these commands have, at their core, the idea of files being a series of columns, separated by some character or position, and allow a person to select one or more specific columns upon which to perform functions. They represent, in a sense, shortcuts for various AWK scripts.
SS: 2003-12-16: Trying to improve over the Tcl implementation of wc in the Great Language Shootout I wrote this, that seems half in execution time against big files:
set text [read stdin]
set c [string length $text]
set l [expr {[llength [split $text "\n\r"]]-1}]
set T [split $text "\n\r\t "]
set w [expr {[llength $T]-[llength [lsearch -all -exact $T {}]]-1}]
puts "\t$l\t$w\t$c"
Output seems to be identical to GNU's wc command.
Laif: It should be noted by those who are not familiar with unix - that even in windows xp, if fileutil::find encounters a folder or file named with a single tilde (~), it will append the contents of the person's home directory to the search results. Furthermore, there is a risk of infinite recursion, if somewhere within your home folder, there is also a folder named with a single tilde.