* On Monday, January 11, 2021 21:17, "William Bader" <williamba...@hotmail.com> said: > I think that split has to be able to read from pipes, so if it reads to the > end to > find the number of lines, it can't back up to do the split. > If you don't care about the order of the lines, you could use "split > --number=r/2"
That's a good point that I didn't consider; I'd still like the feature as requested because this isn't always the case for our projects, but for this particular one it would have been OK for the lines to be in any order. I'll keep that in mind for next time, thanks!
