LinuxQuestions.org - Getting Range of Words from Arg List

I need to grab the name of a city from an argument list. The argument list can be several words long and would look something like this:

Code:

Cheery Creek Dam 2.7 ESE, CO

Byers 0.1 N, CO

Commerce City 9 ENE, CO

If I should pass each one of the above to my function, I would like to store the city name (i.e., "Cheery Creek Dam" or "Byers" or "Commerce City") into a variable for use later.

This is what I have so far:

Code:

#!/bin/bash



function test ()

{

  WC=$(echo "$*" | wc -w)

  COUNT=$(echo "$WC - 3" | bc)

  CITY=${1-COUNT}

  echo "$*"

  echo "WC ..... $WC"

  echo "COUNT .. $COUNT"

  echo "CITY ... $CITY"

}



test Cheery Creek Dam 2.7 ESE, CO

Result:

Code:

Cheery Creek Dam 2.7 ESE, CO

WC ..... 6

COUNT .. 3

CITY ... Cherry

How can I store "Cheery Creek Dam" into the CITY variable?

-- Tony