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How To Run A Command Multiple Times in a Loop in Bash

There are several ways to run a command multiple times in a loop in Bash:

for loop

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for i in {1..5}; do
    echo $i
done

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while loop

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counter=1
while [ $counter -le 5 ]; do
  echo $counter
  ((counter++))
done

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You can also use a command like seq in place of the range {1..5} to specify a different range of numbers or a variable to specify the number of iterations.

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for i in $(seq 1 5); do
  echo $i
done

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You can also use the for loop with in keyword to loop through an array of items

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arr=(item1 item2 item3)
for i in "${arr[@]}"
do
  echo $i
done

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item2
item3

until loop

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counter=1
until [ $counter -gt 5 ]; do
  echo $counter
  ((counter++))
done

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