Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

The continue keyword

As with most things in Bash (and life), there is a Yang to the Yin that is break: the continue  keyword. If you use continue, you're telling the loop to stop the current loop, but continue with the next run. So, instead of stopping the entire loop, you'll just stop the current iteration. Let's see if another example can make this clear:

reader@ubuntu:~/scripts/chapter_11$ vim for-continue.shreader@ubuntu:~/scripts/chapter_11$ cat for-continue.sh #!/bin/bash###################################### Author: Sebastiaan Tammer# Version: v1.0.0# Date: 2018-10-28# Description: For syntax with a continue.# Usage: ./for-continue.sh###################################### Look at numbers 1-20, in steps of 2.for number in {1..20..2}; ...