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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:18:20 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>
 "passing modified parameter list to child" (Jul  2,  6:13pm)
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On Jul 2,  6:13pm, Ronald Fischer wrote:
} Subject: passing modified parameter list to child
}
} I have two scripts, master and slave. When the master script calls the
} slave script, it should pass all arguments to the slave (like in "$@"),
} with the following twist: If the LAST argument of master does NOT start
} with a dash, this argument should get a prefix "--use=".

Requires extendedglob:

    argv[-1]="${argv[-1]/(#s)(#b)([^-])/--use=$match[1]}"