> > split -b Considered Harmful. > > Just curious having not heard of split before, what's the purpose of > it as-is? :)
Do you mean what's it's use? I'm no unix (or Plan 9) elder, but I think it's a file-based implementation of what some text editors call folding. Not a trivial function. Before I knew about split (or unix csplit) I encountered this need so often I wrote an awk script to do it. Talk about reinventing the wheel. I even named the script 'chsplit'. Sheesh. Incidentally gas I don't see the harm in "-b bytes". (Not that I have the time to add that.)
