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From: lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Finding the last arg
Summary: eval can be part of if
Keywords: Bourne shell arguments
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.155714.12760@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 1 Jan 91 15:57:14 GMT
References: <18476@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: Ideology Busters Inc.
Lines: 18

In article <18476@shlump.nac.dec.com>, lan_csse@netrix.nac.dec.com (CSSE LAN Test Account) writes:

> The pseudo-code I'd like to use is:
> 	if [ -d last-command-line-arg ]
> 	then
> 		...
> 	fi

If you don't need to have the last command line argument in a variable you
can do this:

	if eval [ -d "\${${#}}" ]
	then
		...
	fi
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc@cbvox.att.com
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