file delete -force not deleting everything

Kevin Ballard eridius at macports.org
Sat Feb 10 18:48:58 PST 2007


file delete is a built-in Tcl command - do a `man n file` to see it.

And yeah, it definitely should work.

On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Has anybody seen anything like this before?
>
> Is the "file delete" an operation provided by Tcl?
>
> It's odd that it would go through and try to delete everything, but  
> not finish the job.
>
> I'm tempted to change the "file delete -force" into a system "rm - 
> fr ..." call.

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Kevin Ballard
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