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From: wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: KSH script arguments
Message-ID: <858@iiasa.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 08:15:37 GMT
References: <b4CC02oVc3Jx01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: wnp@iiasa.UUCP (wolf paul)
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In article <b4CC02oVc3Jx01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jonc@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Jonathan Chang) writes:
)How can I extract the last argument to a ksh script?
)
)P.S. Just to add to the challenge, the number of arguments is variable.

This works; whether it is the most elegant solution I don't know:

	LASTARG=$(eval "echo \$$#")

Anyone know of a better way?

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