Make output file optional when generating sidecars

[gar1t]

As I understand the behavior of c2patool, when generating a sidecar for a file, the original file is copied to the output path. I would not expect the output file to ever be different from the source path. Is my understanding correct?

The case I have is to simply generate the sidecar. As output is required, I'm begrudgingly specifying it along with -f to overwrite the original. This seems a bit clumsy - I'd prefer to omit the output and avoid any in-place replacement.

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding something critical here!

[gpeacock]

Yes, you are correct. For the case of sidecar only this could use a better solution. I'll look into that.