Looping around with for
The for loop can be used to iterate over the items in a list or till the condition is true.
The syntax of using the for loop in bash is as follows:
for item in [list] do #Tasks done
Another way of writing the for loop is the way C does, as follows:
for (( expr1; expr2; expr3 )) # Tasks done
Here, expr1 is initialization, expr2 is condition, and expr3 is increment.
Simple iteration
The following shell script explains how we can use the for loop to print the values of a list:
#!/bin/bash
# Filename: for_loop.sh
# Description: Basic for loop in bash
declare -a names=(Foo Bar Tom Jerry)
echo "Content of names array is:"
for name in ${names[@]}
do
echo -n "$name "
done
echoThe output of the script is as follows:
Content of names array is: Foo Bar Tom Jerry
Iterating over a command output
We know that a lot of commands give multiline output such as ls, cat, grep, and so on. In many cases, it makes sense to loop over each line of output and do further processing on them.
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