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Different loop style in Bash

Introduction

Bash is one of the most commonly used shell programming languages in the Linux environment. One of the essential features of bash is its ability to execute repetitive tasks using loops. Loops are used to iterate over a list of items and perform a set of actions on each item. In this blog post, we will discuss the different loop styles in Bash and how they can be used.

for loop

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for i in `seq 1 10`
do
    #code here
    echo $i
done

another for loop

C language style

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for ((i=1; i<=10; i++))
do
    printf "%s\n" "$i"
done

while loop

#!/usr/bin/env bash
i=1
while [[ "$i" -lt "10" ]]
do
    #code here
    echo $i
    #i=$[ $i + 1 ]
    ((i++))
done

until loop

#!/usr/bin/env bash
until [[ "$i" -ge "10" ]]
do
  echo $i
  #statements to be executed as long as the condition is false
  ((i++))
done

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