file delete -force not deleting everything

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Feb 10, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> file delete is a built-in Tcl command - do a `man n file` to see it.
>
> And yeah, it definitely should work.
>

Should, but there have been issues before; see

<http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2006-April/033616.html>

for the first time I think it came up with MP...the bug (now in trac):

<http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/7063>

According to the changeset for it

<http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/19038>

MP has a 'delete' command which should do the trick instead of  
'system "rm -rf"' ('delete' is definied in portutil.tcl for those  
curious).

Bryan


> 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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