bashscript for loop code example

Example 1: bash for loop

for VARIABLE in file1 file2 file3
do
	command1 on $VARIABLE
	command2
	commandN
done

Example 2: 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

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