For loops

General

• NB: bash considers all variables to be strings by default, even 69

Syntax

• this example has a for and a do loo'

for variable in values
do
  statements
done

Examples

for blah in one two 69
do
  echo $blah
done
exit 0

• Example of for loop with wildcard expansion
• The parameter list for the for loop is provided by the output of the command in the $()

for file in $(ls f*.sh); do
  lpr $file
done
exit 0