Loops are one of the fundamental concepts of programming languages. Loops are handy when you want to run a series of commands over and over again until a certain condition is reached.
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Old way of 4 loop, which we don’t use anymore.
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for (( x=0; x<5; x++ )); do
echo $x
done
Now let’s talk about new way of using 4 loops in Bash Scripting.
Loop with Brace Expansion.
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for x in {1..5}; do
echo $x
done
Loop with Shell Execution.
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for x in $(ls *.txt); do
echo $x
done
Loop with an Array.
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array=("Mango" "Apple" "Banana")
for x in ${array[@]}; do
echo $x
done
Loop with Dictionary.
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declare -A dict
dict[name]="Yafiz Abraham"
dict[course]="Bash Scripting"
dict[platform]="YouTube"
for key in "${!dict[@]}"; do
echo "$key : ${dict[$key]}"
done
cat-while Loop.
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cat file.txt | while read x; do
echo $x; echo 'NEW LINE'
done
Loop with while. Stop when it reaches to 4th value
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num=1
while [ $num -lt 4 ]; do
echo "num: $((num++))"
done