bash shell for loop code example
Example 1: for loop in shell script
for i in {1..5}
do
echo "Welcome $i times"
done
Example 2: bash for i
for VARIABLE in 1 2 3 4 5 .. N
do
command1
command2
commandN
done
Example 3: bash for loop
for VARIABLE in file1 file2 file3
do
command1 on $VARIABLE
command2
commandN
done
Example 4: bash for loop
for FILE in $(ls -A); do la $FILE; done
Example 5: loop bash
Use for in bash for iterating words in a string or values in an array as:
for value in {1, 2, 3}; do echo $value; done
for value in $(cat arguments_files.txt); do [some_command]; done
And use while for iterating lines from a pipe output as:
cat arguments_file.txt | while read line; do [some_command]; done