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Old 05-27-2008
How to get the value in last command line argument???
Say I want to get the value of last command line argument using the value in $# (or some other way if u can suggest) how do I do it??

$"$#"
`$"$#"`
These don't work Smilie
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Old 05-27-2008
Code:
eval last_arg=\$$#
echo $last_arg

Regards
# 3  
Old 05-28-2008
$_ is the variable. Works in Korn and bash shells:

Code:
$ ls -l test.log
-rw-r-----   1 xxx    xxxxxxx      49 Feb 11 08:42 test.log
$ wc -l $_
       3 test.log

HTH
# 4  
Old 05-28-2008
Bug
Thanks a Lot Buddy!
# 5  
Old 05-28-2008
eval echo \$$# will do

OR
eval "echo \$$#"

...any one of them
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