Bash: Continue In a For / While Loop

In Bash, you can use the continue statement to skip the current iteration of a loop and move on to the next iteration. This is useful if you want to skip certain items in a loop that meet a particular condition, for example.

Here's an example of using continue in a for loop:

for i in {1..10}; do
 if [ $i -eq 5 ]; then
 continue
 fi
 echo $i
done

In this example, the loop iterates over the numbers 1 to 10, but skips the number 5 using the continue statement. The output of this loop will be:

1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
10

Similarly, here's an example of using continue in a while loop:

i=0
while [ $i -lt 10 ]; do
 i=$((i+1))
 if [ $i -eq 5 ]; then
 continue
 fi
 echo $i
done

In this example, the loop increments a counter from 1 to 10, but skips the number 5 using the continue statement. The output of this loop will be:

1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
10