For Loop to Execute Commands | Shell Scripting

This is a multipart blog article series where I am going to explain the concepts of shell scripting and how to write a shell script in Linux, UNIX or Mac based systems. You can also follow this tutorial blog using windows but for that you have to install a bash from.

In this article we are going to see that how we can use bash commands in shell script with the help of for loop.

• We can use for loop to execute commands, like this.

for <variable_name> in ls pwd date
do
    echo "----------$<variable_name>----------"
    $<variable_name>
done

• In this example first ls command will get executed then pwd command and in last date command.
• Let’s solve another problem we have to print the name of all directories present in any folder using for loop.

for <variable_name> in *
do
    if [ -d $<variable_name> ]
    then 
        echo $<variable_name>
    fi
done

• Here * will go through each file and every file present in that directory.
• If condition will check that whether that file is a directory or not, if it is a directory than its name get printed.

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So this was all about how can we execute some commands using for loop in shell script. Hope you liked it and learned something new form it.

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