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Here is mine solution:

• pretty portable (all POSIX sh, bash, ksh, zsh) should work
• does not shift original arguments (shifts a copy).
• does not use evil eval
• does not iterate through the whole list
• does not use external tools

Code:

ntharg() {
    shift $1
    echo $1
}
LAST_ARG=`ntharg $# "$@"`

Here is mine solution:

• pretty portable (all POSIX sh, bash, ksh, zsh) should work
• does not shift original arguments (shifts a copy).
• does not use evil eval
• does not iterate through the whole list
• does not use external tools

Code:

ntharg() {
    shift $1
    printf '%s\n' "$1"
}
LAST_ARG=`ntharg $# "$@"`

Here is mine solution:

• pretty portable (all POSIX sh, bash, ksh, zsh) should work
• does not shift original arguments (shifts copy).
• does not use evil eval
• does not iterate through whole list
• does not use external tools

Code:

ntharg() {
    shift $1
    echo $1
}
LAST_ARG=`ntharg $# "$@"`

Here is mine solution:

• pretty portable (all POSIX sh, bash, ksh, zsh) should work
• does not shift original arguments (shifts a copy).
• does not use evil eval
• does not iterate through the whole list
• does not use external tools

Code:

ntharg() {
    shift $1
    echo $1
}
LAST_ARG=`ntharg $# "$@"`

Here is mine solution. Should be pretty portable (all POSIX sh, bash, ksh, zsh), and does not shift original arguments (shifts copy).

ntharg() {
    shift $1
    echo $1
}
LAST_ARG=`ntharg $# "$@"`

Here is mine solution:

• pretty portable (all POSIX sh, bash, ksh, zsh) should work
• does not shift original arguments (shifts copy).
• does not use evil eval
• does not iterate through whole list
• does not use external tools

Code:

ntharg() {
    shift $1
    echo $1
}
LAST_ARG=`ntharg $# "$@"`