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/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Sunday October 12 2014, @11:22AM
While I can relate to the sentiment of this not being news, this site should welcome diversity. Please remember that you also needed to learn the basics at one point...
The article surely fits into the category "Stuff that matters". New users want to be appreciated too and certainly not mocked for not knowing. They want to learn, you have also learned it and others need to be brought into the breach. We all should politely help each other at the level we can understand and operate. There is no point at making this an exclusive site if you want to reach a broad target audience.
Just my 2 (euro) cents.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday October 13 2014, @02:30PM
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=looping+in+bash&l=1 [lmgtfy.com]
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