Darren New wrote:
> 
> I am saying that I fail to see how split would *reduce* the number of 
> files I have, considering its functionality.
> 

Composing with some of those 49,999 other tools it gives you the 
possibility of eg. removing a part (beginning, ending or from the 
middle) of a file.

"Now, if Linux supported the thing that NTFS supports where you can 
delete the beginning of a file, maybe I'd use that."

Well ok, after that you wrote about chopping the file, which practically 
is what split does, but it should be able to work without creating 
millions of (temp)files in the middle of the process.

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