loop bash linux code example

Example 1: for loop in shell script

for i in {1..5}
do
   echo "Welcome $i times"
done

Example 2: bash for loop

#!/bin/bash
for (( c=1; c<=5; c++ ))
do  
   echo "Welcome $c times"
done

Example 3: bash for i

for VARIABLE in 1 2 3 4 5 .. N
do
	command1
	command2
	commandN
done

Example 4: bash for loop step

for i in `seq 0 2 10`; do echo $i; 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