Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > How about instead adding an option that sets the first name explicitly > and keeps the "abort on failure" behaviour?
Setting the first name is a good alternative. I'll have to see how that works with specifying a prefix (e.g., user specified a first file that doesn't match the prefix), but I'll give it a look later. > Besides, isn't your intended behaviour easily done with: > > $ cat file second-file | split > > ? That only works if I have both files available at the time I run the split command. I also have cases where I split one file and only later want to split a second file but produce output files continuing the sequence. -Jan
