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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /bin/sh
Message-ID: <11957@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Jan 90 04:41:47 GMT
References: <620@dr.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <620@dr.uucp> thormod@dr.uucp (Thormod N{ringsrud) writes:
>What I really want is a new special variabel: $. (dollarpoint) giving
>me the last parameter in the list.

	echo `eval echo $"$#"`