Re: asking for a better way to implement this

[Dennis Williamson]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek
<zanghar@freenet.de> wrote:
> btw. How can I remove the last arguement ${!#} ?
>
> I tried args=${@:-${!#}} but that won't work.
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> Chris
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That says substitute the last argument if there are no arguments
(pretty much impossible).

Try this:

args=${@:1:${#}-1}