dominiksalvet/lastarg.sh

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Efficient POSIX way to get the last argument of a shell script.

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	#!/bin/sh

	if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then # if any arguments
	shift "$(($# - 1))" # shift to the last one
	echo "$1" # print it
	fi

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