[olug] Unix Tip: VALUE OF LAST PARAMETER

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			Unix Tip 1914 - March 29, 2003

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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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