NAME

continue — continue for, while, or until loop

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The continue utility shall return to the top of the smallest enclosing for, while, or until, loop, or to the top of the nth enclosing loop, if n is specified. This involves repeating the condition list of a while or until loop or performing the next assignment of a for loop, and reexecuting the loop if appropriate. The value of n is a decimal integer ≥ 1. The default is equivalent to n=1. If n is greater than the number of enclosing loops, the last enclosing loop is used.

EXIT STATUS

0

Successful completion.

>0

The n value was not an unsigned decimal integer ≥ 1.

The following section is informative.

RATIONALE

Example: for i in ∗ do if test −d "$i" then continue fi done