TCL7.4 Manual Pages

• Tcl - Summary of Tcl language syntax.
• append - Append to variable
• array - Manipulate array variables
• break - Abort looping command
• case - Evaluate one of several scripts, depending on a given value
• catch - Evaluate script and trap exceptional returns
• cd - Change working directory
• close - Close an open file
• concat - Join lists together
• continue - Skip to the next iteration of a loop
• eof - Check for end-of-file condition on open file
• error - Generate an error
• eval - Evaluate a Tcl script
• exec - Invoke subprocess(es)
• exit - End the application
• expr - Evaluate an expression
• file - Manipulate file names and attributes
• flush - Flush buffered output for a file
• for - ``For'' loop
• foreach - Iterate over all elements in a list
• format - Format a string in the style of sprintf
• gets - Read a line from a file
• glob - Return names of files that match patterns
• global - Access global variables
• history - Manipulate the history list
• if - Execute scripts conditionally
• incr - Increment the value of a variable
• info - Return information about the state of the Tcl interpreter
• join - Create a string by joining together list elements
• lappend - Append list elements onto a variable
• library - standard library of Tcl procedures
• lindex - Retrieve an element from a list
• linsert - Insert elements into a list
• list - Create a list
• llength - Count the number of elements in a list
• lrange - Return one or more adjacent elements from a list
• lreplace - Replace elements in a list with new elements
• lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element
• lsort - Sort the elements of a list
• open - Open a file
• pid - Retrieve process id(s)
• proc - Create a Tcl procedure
• puts - Write to a file
• pwd - Return the current working directory
• read - Read from a file
• regexp - Match a regular expression against a string
• regsub - Perform substitutions based on regular expression pattern matching
• rename - Rename or delete a command
• return - Return from a procedure
• scan - Parse string using conversion specifiers in the style of sscanf
• seek - Change the access position for an open file
• set - Read and write variables
• source - Evaluate a file as a Tcl script
• split - Split a string into a proper Tcl list
• string - Manipulate strings
• subst - Perform backslash, command, and variable substitutions
• switch - Evaluate one of several scripts, depending on a given value
• tclsh - Simple shell containing Tcl interpreter
• tclvars - Variables used by Tcl
• tell - Return current access position for an open file
• time - Time the execution of a script
• trace - Monitor variable accesses
• unknown - Handle attempts to use non-existent commands
• unset - Delete variables
• uplevel - Execute a script in a different stack frame
• upvar - Create link to variable in a different stack frame
• while - Execute script repeatedly as long as a condition is met