I am trying to run multiple loops in bash. For example there are 3 file formats f1=*.txt f2=*.png and f3=*.jpg
and i am trying to give the three different commands for each as
for f1 in *.txt; do echo $f1; command
exit 0
for f2 in *.png; do echo $f2; command
exit 0
for f3 in *.jpg; do echo $f3; command
exit 0
but no success, I am getting a broken syntax. I replaced exit 0 with && but no success. Any idea?
Loops in bash terminate with done, not exit.
for f1 in *.txt; do # loop starts here
echo $f1
command
done # loop ends here
# or keep everything on the same line
for f2 in *.png; do echo $f2; command; done
You can still use exit to exit from your script completely, but done is the expected way to signal the end of a loop begun with for, while, or until.
Other shell constructs have their own terminator, like fi to terminate if, and esac to terminate case.
See more about loop syntax here.
You should be using:
for file in *.txt; do echo $file; echo command $file; done
for file in *.png; do echo $file; echo command $file; done
for file in *.jpg; do echo $file; echo command $file; done
Or variations on that theme. You can use f1, f2, and f3 if you prefer.
