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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Finding the last arg
Keywords: Bourne shell arguments
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.154917.14751@virtech.uucp>
Date: 27 Dec 90 15:49:17 GMT
References: <18476@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <18476@shlump.nac.dec.com> lan_csse@netrix.nac.dec.com (CSSE LAN Test Account) writes:
>The obvious thing to try is some sort of expression combining $# with ${},
>e.g. ${$#}.  This gets a syntax error.  The simpler $$# is valid, but it

Try:
	eval \$$#

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