copy - Copying Multiple Files in TCL using glob

Question

I want to copy all files from one folder using tcl. This is the code that I have written so far, but it does not work. What is the problem?

set files [glob -dir E:Music *]
puts "Moving files"

foreach f { $files } {
    file copy $f E:
}

Answer 1

My earlier assumption was wrong, and I unfortunately didn't notice that you were using braces around $files. Unlike languages like C, where parentheses or braces are part of syntactic constructions, braces are used for quoting in Tcl. In this case, $files is the list of files found by glob, while { $files } is the literal string " $files ". Since there is no file named " $files ", you get an error when you try to copy it.

You are still going to have problems with the backslash character. During the phase when the interpreter prepares a command for evaluation, any backslash character is read as a part of an "escape sequence". Changing the backslash character to a regular slash (E: -> E:/) may solve your problem. You can also quote it like this E:\ or like this {E:/}. In the latter case, the braces must enclose the whole string, so it would be {E:Music}.

(Note: the 'Hoodiecrow' mentioned in the comments is me, I used that nick earlier.)