KSH script arguments

wolf paul wnp at iiasa.AT
Thu Aug 30 18:15:37 AEST 1990


In article <b4CC02oVc3Jx01 at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jonc at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Jonathan Chang) writes:
)How can I extract the last argument to a ksh script?
)
)P.S. Just to add to the challenge, the number of arguments is variable.

This works; whether it is the most elegant solution I don't know:

	LASTARG=$(eval "echo \$$#")

Anyone know of a better way?

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