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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: $argv[$#argv]
Message-ID: <16278@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 27 May 91 03:06:01 GMT
References: <1991May25.204543.6428@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991May25.204543.6428@midway.uchicago.edu> 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?

It's somewhat context sensitive, but here's one example:
	$ set -- a b c
	$ echo `eval echo $"$#"`
	c
	$