BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO: Loops for, while and until

Next Previous Contents 7. Loops for, while and until In this section you'll find for, while and until loops. The for loop is a little bit different from other programming languages. Basically, it let's you iterate over a series of 'words' within a string. The while executes a piece of code if the control expression is true, and only stops when it is false (or a explicit break is found within the e