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Linux / Unix main page About for, foreach and repeat Shell built-in functions to repeatedly execute action(s) for a selected number of times. Syntax for word [ in wordlist ... ] ; do actions ; done foreach word ( wordlist ) [ ... ] end repeat count command Examples for file in *.txt ; do wc -l $file ; done - In ksh (Korn Shell) would do a word count of the files *.txt until done and would return results similar to the following: 5 myfile.txt
2 myfile2.txt
14 newfile.txt Related commands break
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