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From: tmanos@wyvern.uucp (Tom Manos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: $argv[$#argv]
Message-ID: <AC3+=X#@wyvern.uucp>
Date: 27 May 91 00:25:31 GMT
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goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:

>It's not obvious to me how to take the value of the last argv
>element with /bin/sh, the way one can do with the C-Shell using
>subscripts.  Perhaps an ignorant question, but how do?
>-- 

This works for me:

	#!/bin/sh
	eval echo '$'{$#}

Should work for you, too.
Break out TFM to understand how it works.

Tom
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