Korn Shell Programming by Example

continue

Official Description

Resumes the next iteration of the enclosing for, while, until, or select loop.

Syntax

continue[n]

Options

None

Oddities

If n is specified, it resumes at the nth enclosing loop.

Example

 $ cat buzz3 #! /bin/ksh integer x=17 while (( x<25 )) do x=x+1 if (( x==21 )) then print "x>20" continue # Prints message when x=21, # then continues the loop fi done print $x $ $ buzz3 x>20 25 # Note that x contains 25, # proving that the loop finished $ $ $ cat buzz4 # Contains nested loops #! /bin/ksh integer x=17 integer y=0 for (( y=0; y<5; y++ )) do while (( x<25 )) do x=x+1 if (( x=21 )) then continue 2 # Ends this pass through inner loop, # but continues outer loop fi done done print $x print $y $ $ buzz4 21 5 # Note that ...