Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm nearly finished developing my app, im programming it in tcl/tk. I just need to get 1 last thing done. When my app starts, i ask the user for username and password. These are stored on a file on a unix server.

My problem is how do i read a file from a unix server, i've tried everything but there doesnt seem to be a way to read a file from unix server in tcl/tk. I'm nearly at the conclusion that it cant be done.

Can anyone help me on this?

Thanks,
Phil.

Hi-

By now, you may have already figured out the solution to your problem. If so, post your results. If not I have the following questions:

Is your script not already on the Unix server and are you trying to read from a remote or local file? I assume you mean reading from a local file that resides on the same server your script resides. There is more than one way to ready from a file in tcl. Here is one:

<snip>
set notefile [file join $env(HOME) {.notes}]
set f [open $notefile r]
puts [read -nonewline $f]
<snip>

1. Set the location to the file ".notes". This will is located in the home folder.
2. "f" is a file handle that can be used to read the content of the file ".notes".
3. output the content of ".notes" to stdout

I hope this helps you or anyone else who might have this same problem.


-deftguru

Ok, let me explain my application in more detail.

My application is running on windows, im using an ssh connection to unix. So i have a procedure set up to do the ssh, and i need within that procedure to read the file from the unix server.
I'm open to anyways of doing this, even if its easier to have a unix script on the server do it, and then within the ssh connection i can run the script.

I really dont want to be bumping my post, as i know mod will kill me :P

But seriously does anyone know anyway of reading a file from windows to unix in tcl/tk.

I really need to do this....

Please respond.

Thank you.