Shell Scripting

Roger McCalman roger at runcircle.co.uk
Thu Mar 9 21:40:55 GMT 2000


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





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