David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > It's still irrelevant since split does not _use_ the existing file name > for constructing new file names.
Split was just an example of a command that concatenates bytes sequences to get pathnames, nothing more. Such concatenation is commonplace in Linux programs of all kinds. And the point of bringing concatenation into the discussion was that remapping byte sequences to byte sequences breaks concatenation additivity: U(x) + U(y) = U(x + y) Marko
