BASH/C2/More-on-Loops/English-timed
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Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Nested for loop in BASH. |
00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn Nested for loop with the help of an example. |
00:13 | To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Operating System and GNU BASH version 4.1.10 |
00:24 | Please note, GNU Bash version 4 or above is recommended for practice. |
00:31 | To learn this tutorial, you should be familiar with loops in Bash. |
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00:43 | Let us start with an introduction to nested loop. |
00:46 | A loop within a loop is known as nested loop. |
00:51 | Let us see the syntax. Outer for loop expression 1, 2, 3; |
00:57 | inner for loop expression 1, 2, 3; |
01:01 | statement 1, statement 2 |
01:04 | closing inner for loop, closing outer for loop. |
01:09 | Let us see an example on nested for loop. |
01:12 | First, let us go through the directory structure. |
01:17 | Here is a directory on the Desktop named simple-nested-for. Let's open it. |
01:24 | We have sub-directories "test", "test2", "test3" and a Bash script. |
01:31 | In each sub-directory, there are multiple text files. |
01:36 | Now we will move on to our code. |
01:39 | This program displays all the files within each sub-directory. |
01:45 | Please note that the same can be achieved with a single line command ls -1 (hyphen one) -R(hyphen R) test*(test asterisk). |
01:53 | But we will do it using a for loop. |
01:58 | Note that the name of our Bash script is nested-(hyphen)for dot sh. |
02:05 | This is our shebang line. |
02:08 | This is the outer for loop. |
02:10 | This for loop will check for directories starting with the name test. |
02:15 | First echo line will display the sub-directories name. |
02:21 | The second echo line will create a blank line. |
02:25 | This is the inner for loop. It will check for the files present within the directories. |
02:32 | "ls" displays the directory content. |
02:36 | -1 (hyphen one) is used to list one file per line. |
02:41 | Here, we list the files. done ends the inner for loop. |
02:45 | This command prints a horizontal line after completion of every cycle of outer for-loop. |
02:53 | done ends the outer for loop. |
02:57 | Let us execute the program.Open the terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+t keys simultaneously on your keyboard. |
03:08 | Now, let us go to the directory where our Bash script is. |
03:13 | It is on the Desktop. |
03:15 | Type: cd Desktop. Let us go in the folder simple-(Hyphen)nested-(Hyphen)for |
03:22 | Press Enter. |
03:24 | Type: chmod plus +x nested-(Hyphen)for dot sh |
03:32 | Press Enter. |
03:34 | Type: dot slash nested-(Hyphen)for dot sh |
03:39 | Press Enter.The output is displayed. It shows files in test directory, files in test2 directory and files in test3 directory. |
03:52 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. |
03:56 | Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we learned Nested for loop. |
04:02 | As an assignment: |
04:04 | Retype: nested (hyphen)-for dot sh bash script using nested while loop. |
04:11 | Save your program with the name 'nested-(hyphen)while dot sh'. |
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