Unix Tip: VALUE OF LAST PARAMETER

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Unix Tip 2369 - June 27, 2005

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VALUE OF LAST PARAMETER

Get the value of the last parameter
passed into a korn shell script.

eval last=\${$#}

Now $last is the last parameter passed in.

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