continue Command continue
Terminate current iteration of shell construct
continue [ n ]
The command continue helps to control the flow of commands given
to the shell sh. When it is used without an argument, continue
terminates the execution of the current iteration of the inner-
most for, until, or while shell construct; that is, it acts like
a branch to the enclosing done, after which loop execution may
continue or terminate. If an argument is given, continue ter-
minates the current iteration of the nth enclosing for, until, or
while loop.
The shell executes continue directly.
***** See Also *****
break, commands, for, sh, until, while
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