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Looping in Bash: An Introduction

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday October 12 2014, @09:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the Bad-Ass-Script-Host dept.

toygeek writes:

When I first learned about Linux in the 90’s, I read that it was possible to even write your own commands to use at the command line. Later I learned about bash scripting, and it wasn’t long before I needed to learn how to loop in bash. Looping in bash is one of the fundamental building blocks of bash programming. It isn’t hard to do at all and is worth learning. The main reason to learn looping in bash is to handle doing the same thing over and over again. They’re easy to do even at the command line. Please follow along as we look a couple of basic examples, and how you can expand on them.

http://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2014/10/looping-in-bash/

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 13 2014, @01:38PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday October 13 2014, @01:38PM (#105539) Journal

    while later comments on different techinques were something the article itself did not go into and shows the true value of this site.

    I second this, too. Most of the time when you don't fish in certain waters all the time you chug through a tutorial to get what you need, and move on. This kind of focused feedback gives very valuable context to scripting in general that you would be hard pressed to get any way other than by sitting among the greybeards in the dark rooms for several years.

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