continue — Skip to the next iteration of a loop in a shell script
Format
continue [n]
Description
continue skips to the next iteration of an enclosing for, select, until, or while loop in a shell script. If a number n is given, execution continues at the loop control of the nth enclosing loop. The default value of n is 1.
Usage notes
continue is a special built-in shell command.
Localization
continue uses
the following localization environment variables:
- LANG
- LC_ALL
- LC_MESSAGES
- NLSPATH
See Localization for more information.
Exit values
- 0
- Successful completion
- 1
- The value of n given was not an unsigned decimal greater than 0.
Portability
POSIX.2, X/Open Portability Guide, UNIX systems.
Related information
break, sh, tcsh