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While Loop
Syntax for while loop:
while [ condition ] do statement1 statement2 done
While loop example:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# While loop example
COUNTER=0
while [ $COUNTER -le 5 ]
do
echo "COUNT = $COUNTER"
((COUNTER++))
done
echo "while loop completed."
Output:
COUNT = 0
COUNT = 1
COUNT = 2
COUNT = 3
COUNT = 4
COUNT = 5
while loop completed.
Also, see the example code shell-scripting-examples in our GitHub repository. See complete examples in our GitHub repositories.
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