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I'm wondering because I haven't ever used PowerShell, but I've heard that's decent and worth looking into. I read somewhere that instead of piping around text, PowerShell pipes around objects, since Windows is more object/API-based vs UNIX which is text/file-based.
This is a simplified version of the Unix split command-line utility, written in Python, for learning purposes.
It does not implement all features of the Unix / POSIX split command.
I've been playing a lot of roguelikes lately (for those interested: mostly [ADOM](http://www.adom.de/home/index.html), a little bit of [Sil](http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/)) and because those games use a lot of dice rolls in their gameplay mechanics, I wrote myself a small utility to ...
The actual code is in these directories: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/
I think most readers on lobste.rs understand the Oil project by now. However, reddit and Hacker News audiences don't yet understand it. If you're confused by anything in this doc, or think a first-time reader would be confused, let me know!