Finding the last arg

[Larry Wall]

In article <2577 at wn1.sci.kun.nl> hansm at cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
: I think the latter behaviour is more useful.  For one thing, it makes
: "if foo | grep -s bar" work right 100% of the time.

Presuming, of course, that your grep actually returns a reasonable
exit status.  Some don't, alas.

And the moral of the story?  It's easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov