I want to delete all files in a directory using TCL. (I'm using Xilinx Vivado's TCL console under Win 10.) I found that in TCL documentation that
file delete ?-force? ?- -? pathname ?pathname ... ?
should work. But
file delete -force -- [glob *]
does nothing. What's the wrong with that?
Make that
file delete -force -- {*}[glob *]
... so that the path names returned by [glob] are turned into multiple arguments to [file delete] (using the expansion operator {*}), rather than one argument representing the one list of a path names (read by [file delete] as one, well complex file path).
Alternatively, on Tcl older than 8.5, use an explicit loop:
foreach path [glob *] {
file delete -force -- $path
}