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The special variable $# would tell you
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hey this is the solution

for i in $*; do test $i ;done
print $i
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echo $@ | awk '{ print $NF }'
if the last argument is not string of words with spaces in it
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Hi,

The below command will display the last argument

echo $*|awk '{print NR, $NF}'
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