Finding the last arg
    Lawrence V. Cipriani 
    lvc at cbnews.att.com
       
    Wed Jan  2 02:57:14 AEST 1991
    
    
  
In article <18476 at shlump.nac.dec.com>, lan_csse at netrix.nac.dec.com (CSSE LAN Test Account) writes:
> The pseudo-code I'd like to use is:
> 	if [ -d last-command-line-arg ]
> 	then
> 		...
> 	fi
If you don't need to have the last command line argument in a variable you
can do this:
	if eval [ -d "\${${#}}" ]
	then
		...
	fi
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc at cbvox.att.com
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