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Shell Script - Loops

Bash supports while and for loops. The while loop repeats a block of code as long as a condition is true. The for loop iterates over elements in a list. It can iterate a specific number of times by using expressions. Loops can be nested, with an inner loop executing each iteration of the outer loop.

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Shell Script - Loops

Bash supports while and for loops. The while loop repeats a block of code as long as a condition is true. The for loop iterates over elements in a list. It can iterate a specific number of times by using expressions. Loops can be nested, with an inner loop executing each iteration of the outer loop.

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LOOPS IN SHELL SCRIPTS

Bash supports:
while loop
for loop

a) while loop

The while loop will repeat a chunk of code as long as the given condition is true.

Syntax:

while [ condition ]
do
command1
command2
command3
…
....
done

Example 1:
i=1
while [ $i -le 10 ]
do
echo “ value of i is $i “
i = ` expr $i + 1 `
done

b) for loop
Syntax 1 :

for { variable name } in { list }


do
execute one for each item in the list until the list is not finished
(And repeat all statement between do and done)
done
Example 1:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
echo "Welcome $i times"
done

Example 2:
count = 0
for i in 2 4 6
do
echo “ i is $i “
count = `expr $count + 1`
done
echo “ the loop was executed $count times”

Discussion :
This for loop will be executed for three times, once with i=2, once with i=4 and
once with i=6.

Syntax # 2:

for (( expr1; expr2; expr3 ))


do
.....
...
repeat all statements between do and
done until expr2 is TRUE
done

Example 1:
for (( i = 0 ; i <= 4; i++ ))
do
echo "Welcome $i times"
done

Output :
Welcome 0 times
Welcome 1 times
Welcome 2 times
Welcome 3 times
Welcome 4 times
Nesting of for loop
Example:
for (( i = 1; i <= 5; i++ )) ### Outer for loop ###
do
for (( j = 1 ; j <= 5; j++ )) ### Inner for loop ###
do
echo -n "$i "
done
echo "" #### print the new line ###
done

Output:
11111
22222
33333
44444
55555

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