Re: [Help-bash] The best way to remove the last element of $@

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/7/12 12:50 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It is easy to remove the last element of a regular array. But the
> following pattern can not be applied to address@hidden Does anybody know what 
> is
> the best way to unset the last element?
> 
> array=(a b c)
> printf "%s\n" address@hidden
> unset address@hidden
> printf "%s\n" address@hidden

I'm sure there are shorter ways, but the most straightforward is something
like

array=( "$@" )
unset last array element
set -- "address@hidden"


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