TCL: Recursively search subdirectories to source all .tcl files

Question

I have a main TCL proc that sources tons of other tcl procs in other folders and subsequent subdirectories. For example, in the main proc it has:

source $basepa         


        

Answer 1

Building on ramanman's reply, heres a routine that tackles the problem using the built in TCL file commands and which works it way down the directory tree recursively.

# findFiles
# basedir - the directory to start looking in
# pattern - A pattern, as defined by the glob command, that the files must match
proc findFiles { basedir pattern } {

    # Fix the directory name, this ensures the directory name is in the
    # native format for the platform and contains a final directory seperator
    set basedir [string trimright [file join [file normalize $basedir] { }]]
    set fileList {}

    # Look in the current directory for matching files, -type {f r}
    # means ony readable normal files are looked at, -nocomplain stops
    # an error being thrown if the returned list is empty
    foreach fileName [glob -nocomplain -type {f r} -path $basedir $pattern] {
        lappend fileList $fileName
    }

    # Now look for any sub direcories in the current directory
    foreach dirName [glob -nocomplain -type {d  r} -path $basedir *] {
        # Recusively call the routine on the sub directory and append any
        # new files to the results
        set subDirList [findFiles $dirName $pattern]
        if { [llength $subDirList] > 0 } {
            foreach subDirFile $subDirList {
                lappend fileList $subDirFile
            }
        }
    }
    return $fileList
 }