Controlling the Loop Execution: break

Controlling the loop execution

The loop condition dictates when it should run and stop. Two Bash built-ins can change this behavior. Using them, we can interrupt the loop or skip its iteration. Let’s consider these built-ins in detail.

break

The break built-in stops the loop immediately. It is useful for handling an error and finishing an infinite loop.

Here is an example of using break. Let’s suppose we write a script that searches the specific array element by its value. We apply the loop to traverse the array. When we ...