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From: thormod@dr.uucp (Thormod N{ringsrud)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: /bin/sh
Message-ID: <620@dr.uucp>
Date: 12 Jan 90 14:29:15 GMT
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 Suggestion to enhance /bin/sh
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I often have a need to pick up the last parameter $1, $2 .. from
the parameter list.  I have tried to catch it by referring $$#
which gives me "processnumber"#.  Then I tried ${$#} which I really
thought would work,  but got instead the message: bad variabel substitution.

What I really want is a new special variabel: $. (dollarpoint) giving
me the last parameter in the list.


	Thormod N{ringsrud
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