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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting puting arguments into varables Post 302196253 by era on Saturday 17th of May 2008 10:51:46 AM
Old 05-17-2008
The conventional solution would be to put any required arguments first, and leave variable arguments last.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
file=$1
shift
echo "file is $file, remaining arguments are" "$@"

The index of the last command line argument is in $#, and you can use eval to print it.

Code:
eval echo Last argument is ${$#}

eval is tricky to learn, and you need to understand proper quoting rules etc. to use it.
 

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