$argv[$#argv]
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Mon May 27 13:06:01 AEST 1991
In article <1991May25.204543.6428 at midway.uchicago.edu> goer at 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
$
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