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                      3: while                        Command                        while
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                      8: Execute commands repeatedly
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                     10: wwhhiillee _s_e_q_u_e_n_c_e_1
                     11: [ddoo _s_e_q_u_e_n_c_e_2]
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                     14: The shell construct while controls a loop.  It first executes the
                     15: commands in sequence1.  If the exit status is zero, the shell ex-
                     16: ecutes  the commands  in the optional  sequence2 and  repeats the
                     17: process until  the exit status of  sequence1 is nonzero.  Because
                     18: the shell  recognizes a reserved word only  as the unquoted first
                     19: word of  a command, both do  and done must occur  unquoted at the
                     20: start of a line or preceded by `;'.
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                     22: The shell  commands break and continue may be  used to alter con-
                     23: trol flow within a while  loop.  The until construct has the same
                     24: form as while, but the sense of the test is reversed.
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                     26: The shell executes while directly.
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                     30: break, commands, continue, sh, test, until
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