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Referencing last positional variable
From: |
Robert Mark Bram |
Subject: |
Referencing last positional variable |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:42:40 +1100 |
Howdy all!
I have a script in which I would like to access the last positional variable
directly (and I don't know how many paramaters will be issued).
I know I could do this:
# Go through arguments, storing the one
while [ "$#" -gt 1 ]
do
shift
done
last=$1
But I want to try referencing it directly instead.
I have tried this:
numArgs=$#
lastArg=${numArgs}
echo $lastArg
numArgs=$#
lastArg=$`echo $numArgs`
echo $lastArg
But only got this output:
3
$3
How can I do this?
Thanks!
Rob
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