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From: stadt@cs.utwente.nl (Richard van de Stadt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Variable substitition
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.092424@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: 30 Nov 90 08:24:24 GMT
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Reply-To: stadt@cs.utwente.nl (Richard van de Stadt)
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Is there some sort of variable substitution possible in a shell script
to get the value of the last argument supplied to the script? I don't
mean shifting the arguments until one is left. I'd like to know if something 
like awk's $NF, in which NF means the number of fields, and $NF means the 
value of the last field, is possible. ${$#} results in an error message.
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R.R. van de Stadt (Richard)
Email: stadt@cs.utwente.nl