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From: spicer@tci.UUCP (Steve Spicer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: KSH script arguments
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Date: 30 Aug 90 12:59:58 GMT
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In article <13160@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM) writes:
>in article <b4CC02oVc3Jx01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, jonc@uts.amdahl.com (Jonathan Chang) says:
>> How can I extract the last argument to a ksh script?
>

Why not do it the way Korn does it?

eval lastarg='$'$#

It's in the book.

Steven Spicer
Technology Concepts, Inc.
Sudbury MA 01776
spicer@tci.bell-atl.com