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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: how do I get the last argument from a list of arguments?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:35:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201407072135.s67LZhcv006531@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> of "Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:06:06 EDT." <CADjGqHuALx7Ue3Ei3s7XvT_pHWxECo2rt=BNegPO5Fwcuge2LQ@mail.gmail.com>

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TJ Luoma wrote:
> That has worked OK for what I've needed to do, but now I'm trying to
> create two functions which I will use in place of 'cp' and 'mv' and I
> need to be able to find the _last_ argument (the destination) before I
> process all the rest of the args.
> 
> The only way that I can think of to get the last argument is to do
> something like this
> 
>      LAST=`echo "$@" | awk '{print $NF}'`
> 
> but that made me wonder if there wasn’t a better way.

The arguments are available as the array argv, so use $argv[-1].

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-07 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <luomat@gmail.com>
2014-07-07 21:06 ` TJ Luoma
2014-07-07 21:33   ` Kurtis Rader
2014-07-07 21:35   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2014-07-07 22:06   ` Bart Schaefer
2014-07-08 12:52   ` zzapper
2014-07-08 14:11     ` zzapper
2014-07-08 15:06       ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-07-08 15:25         ` zzapper
2014-07-08 15:42           ` Roman Neuhauser

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