Bash_Script_Loops_Conditionals.md

Bash Script loops and conditional statement example

The following blog post shows example of bash script with for loop, while loop, if elif else conditional statements.

Important aspects covered in the sample script:

• Conditional while loop
• While loop to iterate over lines in a file
• Infinite while loop with break and continue
• Infinite while loop with sleep
• Iterate over arguments passed as input using for loop
• For loop with counter
• if..elif..else conditional structure
• Numerical comparison
• String comparison
• Regular Expression match
• and (&&), or (||), not (!) conditions
• Expression with multiple conditions

Executing the script:

bash loops.sh --help

bash conditionals.sh