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Linux / Unix main page 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
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