Finding the last arg

[Rouben Rostamian]

In article <18476 at shlump.nac.dec.com> lan_csse at netrix.nac.dec.com (CSSE LAN Test Account) writes:
 >What I've been trying to do is write a script whose semantics are sort of
 >like the cp/mv/ln commands, in that the last argument is special.  If it
 >is a directory, I want to do something different that amounts to appending
 >character strings to its name to give file name[s] within the directory;
 >if it is an ordinary file, I just want to use its name.
 >
 >The problem is that I can't figure out any Bourne-shell expression that
 >gives the last argument.  In C-shell, it's easy (argv[$#]).  But I need
 >to write Bourne shell scripts.

Here's what you need:
#!/bin/sh
eval lastarg=\${$#}
...etc...


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