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until, while
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About until and while
Shell built-in functions to repetitively execute a set of actions while/until conditions are evaluated
TRUE.
Syntax
while [ conditions ] ; do actions ; done
until [ conditions ] ; do actions ; done
Examples
filename=anything
while [ $filename ]
do
echo "file?"
read filename # read from terminal find . -name $filename -print
done
User is repeated prompted for a name of a file to be
located, until the user chooses to finish execution.
Related commands
break
csh
ksh
sh
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