Redirect text to a file.

[rbautch]

I'm very new to tcl. I would like to add a line to my script that writes a block of text to a log file with the date and time shown in the log entry. The entry in the log file would look something like: Sept 11 8:05pm Main Script Ran. Please help! Thanks in advance.

 

[Bong]

Let's say the log file exists; call it "log.txt". First you'll want to open it:
set fid [open log.txt w]

Then, at the appropriate moment, you'll want to get the current time in the right format:
set tnow [clock format [clock seconds] -format "%b %d %I:%M%P"]

Then put it out in the log file:
puts $fid "$tnow <your text>"

And it's good form to close the log file when you don't need it anymore:
close $fid

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Bob Rashkin
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[rbautch]

That's just what I was looking for. Thanks!!