File not deleting TCL

Question

Something is lying...

Keep in mind that this works as expected when I run the script manually, but not when it is run via task scheduler.

I have a TCL script that is supposed to check to see if a file exists on a network drive and delete it if it does. I do this by:

if {[file exists X:/path/to/file.txt]} {
    log_output "Deleting file X:/path/to/file.txt"
    file delete -force X:/path/to/file.txt
}

and i noticed that the file was never being deleted when run via Task Scheduler. So I preformed another check to try to get more information.

if {[file exists X:/path/to/file.txt]} {
    log_output "File X:/path/to/file.txt NOT DELETED!"
} else {
    log_output "File X:/path/to/file.txt DELETED!"
}

My output is:

Deleting file X:/path/to/file.txt
File X:/path/to/file.txt DELETED!

The second line confirms that the file was actually reported as deleted as the exists check failed. Finally, I then run a command that generates a new file.

exec myProgram --outFile X:/path/to/file.txt

Again, the weird thing is when I run this script manually, it works just fine. However, When I have it set to run via task scheduler (using Win7), the old file is not deleted even though the output log shows it was:

Deleting file X:/path/to/file.txt
File X:/path/to/file.txt DELETED!

When I check the date and time stamp of the file it is always from the last time I preformed a manual run. I thought it was more of a permissions error, but this doesnt make sense. Why would it report as deleted and still be there unchanged?

To be thorough, I tried some other workarounds. Instead of writing a file to the network drive via the command, I tried writing it locally:

if {[file exists C:/path/to/file.txt]} {
    log_output "Deleting file C:/path/to/file.txt"
    file delete -force C:/path/to/file.txt
}
if {[file exists C:/path/to/file.txt]} {
    log_output "File C:/path/to/file.txt NOT DELETED!"
} else {
    log_output "File C:/path/to/file.txt DELETED!"
}

exec myProgram --outFile C:/path/to/file.txt

Then copying it to the network drive:

file copy -force C:/path/to/file.txt X:/path/to/file.txt
file copy -force C:/path/to/file.txt X:/path/to/file1.txt

I get:

Deleting file X:/path/to/file.txt
File X:/path/to/file.txt DELETED!
Deleting file C:/path/to/file.txt
File C:/path/to/file.txt DELETED!

But sure enough, the old file remains and the new file 'file1.txt' does not exist...

Again, manual runs always result in success.

Answer 1

Try this

1.Set the file location or path in a variable as

set way "/XX/XXX".

2.Apply this

if {[file exists $way/file.txt]} {
    exec rm -f $way/file.txt 
}

I hope this will work.