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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /bin/sh
Message-ID: <5111@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 16 Jan 90 03:24:00 GMT
References: <620@dr.uucp>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatika, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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In article <620@dr.uucp>,
	thormod@dr.uucp (Thormod N{ringsrud) writes:
\... I often have a need to pick up the last parameter $1, $2 .. from
\the parameter list.  [...]

eval last=\"\$$#\"
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