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From: kenney@hsi.UUCP (Brian Kenney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: KSH script arguments
Message-ID: <1992@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 11:40:44 GMT
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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?
>Example:
>	myscript arg1 arg2 arg3
 
>Within the script, I want to (easily) know the value of 'arg3'.  
>$# returns the number of arguments, $1 is the first argument, 
>but what's the variable that cotains the last argument?
 
>Thanks!
>jonc@uts.amdahl.com

args=$*
arg3=${args##* }

You're welcome.

I got this from The Kornshell Command and Programming Language by
Bolsky and Korn.  I highly recommend it.

-- 
       Brian Kenney                                      kenney@hsi.com