Re: [Tcl] file copy does not "touch" file. Why?

Dnia Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:28:55 +0000, Donal K. Fellows skrobie:
> Sektor van Skijlen wrote:
> > In a situation, when both source and destination files exist, file copy (with
> > -force of course) does not update the last modification time of the
> > destination file. This "feature" has a strong impact on cooperation with
> > 'make'.

> It's that way because it makes it easier to do archival backups. If you
> want the mtime of the destination to be *now*, try this:

> proc creatingFileCopy {source destination} {
> file copy $source $destination
> file mtime $destination [clock seconds]
> }

> You might argue that there should be an option to tell [file copy] to
> not copy the metadata. I'd probably not argue the matter, but currently
> the metadata copy is done, since it's part of producing a "copy".

I might argue that there should be an option to file copy:

% file copy -force -mtime $source $target

And it's fine. In particular, works as unix cp command.

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