Documentation can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/fileutil.html ---- Currently the fileutil package contains a find, grep, and cat . Other procs that would be useful to add would include wc, tee, head, tail, and perhaps some awk'ish type functions ala [Tclx]. For more on grep, see "NR-grep: A Fast and Flexible Pattern Matching Tool" [http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~gnavarro/ps/spe01.ps.gz]. ---- Perhaps even some code like [Glenn Jackman]'s: proc touch {filename {time ""}} { if {[string length $time] == 0} {set time [clock seconds]} file mtime $filename $time file atime $filename $time } ''glennj'': This proc has been accepted into tcllib 1.2: http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/fileutil.html '''US''' Unix-like touch: proc touch {filename {time ""}} { if {![file exists $filename]} { close [open $filename a] } if {[string length $time] == 0} {set time [clock seconds]} file mtime $filename $time file atime $filename $time } ---- What other file related procs would be useful? ---- [Category Package], subset [Tcllib]