Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

Loop control

At this point, you should feel comfortable with using while and for loops. There is one more, rather important, topic to discuss with regards to loops: loop control. Loop control is a generic term, for anything that you do to, well, control the loop! However, there are two keywords that we'll need if we want to unleash the full power of loops: break and continue. We'll start with break.