/bin/sh

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <620 at dr.uucp>, thormod at dr.uucp (Thormod N{ringsrud) writes:
> I often have a need to pick up the last parameter $1, $2 .. from
> the parameter list.  I have tried to catch it by referring $$#
> which gives me "processnumber"#.  Then I tried ${$#} which I really
> thought would work,  but got instead the message: bad variabel substitution.

The following will work in /bin/sh:

	`eval echo \\\${$#}`

Not easy to type, but it works for shells.
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