On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:31:19PM +0000, Gary Brewer wrote: > > I thought it was ${$#} but in csh this just echoed a number not a string. > > Any ideas? checkout the man page on getopt. in general to get at args beyond $9 you need to shift the others out of the way i.e. using sh shift `expr $# - 1` last=$1 Cheers, Roger