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From: jonc@uts.amdahl.com (Jonathan Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: SOLUTION to ksh argument parsing
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Date: 31 Aug 90 20:13:08 GMT
Reply-To: jonc@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Jon Chang)
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Thanks for all the responses!  The most popular (and easiest) 
way to extract the last argument passed to a ksh script is:

eval lastarg=\${$#}


$# == the total number of arguments