>> 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. It also will (unless the first file is a multiple of the split size) take the last part of file and the first part of second-file and put them in the same split file. It also imposes the same split size on both input files. In contrast, the proposed behaviour never puts pieces from different input files in the same output file and permits different fragment sizes for different input files. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
