Finding the last arg

[Stuart Poulin]

Of course if you know the last arg will never have white space and
the command line wont have args like "=", you can use expr:
	Last=`expr "$*" : '.* \(.*\)' \| "$*"`

	-or-
Use awk, it can handle a "=" by itself but still no white space.
	Last=`Last=`echo "$*" | awk '{ print $NF }'`

    -or-
Something with sed or grep. 

I like the "for last do :; done" method - it's very clever and always works. 

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