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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Finding the last arg
Keywords: Bourne shell arguments
Message-ID: <10906@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 3 Jan 91 23:55:21 GMT
References: <18476@shlump.nac.dec.com> <3074@wyse.wyse.com> <1991Jan2.174157.21530@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <2577@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <2577@wn1.sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
: I think the latter behaviour is more useful.  For one thing, it makes
: "if foo | grep -s bar" work right 100% of the time.

Presuming, of course, that your grep actually returns a reasonable
exit status.  Some don't, alas.

And the moral of the story?  It's easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov