break and continue in Bash Scripting - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to stop the loop when the number is 5.

Bash Scripting

for i in {1..10}; do
  if [ "$i" -eq 5 ]; then
    [1]
  fi
  echo "$i"
done

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Acontinue

Bbreak

Cexit

Dstop

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'continue' instead of 'break' which skips the current iteration but does not stop the loop.

The 'break' command stops the loop immediately when the condition is met.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to skip printing the number 3 but continue the loop.

Bash Scripting

for i in {1..5}; do
  if [ "$i" -eq 3 ]; then
    [1]
  fi
  echo "$i"
done

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Acontinue

Bbreak

Cexit

Dstop

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'break' which stops the loop instead of skipping one iteration.

The 'continue' command skips the current iteration and continues with the next one.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly skip even numbers and print only odd numbers.

Bash Scripting

for num in {1..6}; do
  if [ $((num % 2)) -eq 0 ]; then
    [1]
  fi
  echo "$num"
done

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Acontinue

Bbreak

Cexit

Dstop

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'break' which stops the loop instead of skipping even numbers.

Using 'continue' skips even numbers and prints only odd numbers.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to stop the loop when number is 4 and skip printing number 2.

Bash Scripting

for n in {1..5}; do
  if [ "$n" -eq 2 ]; then
    [1]
  fi
  if [ "$n" -eq 4 ]; then
    [2]
  fi
  echo "$n"
done

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Acontinue

Bbreak

Cexit

Dstop

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'break' to skip number 2 which stops the loop too early.

Using 'continue' to stop the loop which only skips iterations.

Use 'continue' to skip printing 2 and 'break' to stop the loop at 4.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to skip number 3, stop at number 6, and print the rest.

Bash Scripting

for val in {1..7}; do
  if [ "$val" -eq 3 ]; then
    [1]
  fi
  if [ "$val" -eq 6 ]; then
    [2]
  fi
  echo "$val"
done

# After loop ends
[3]

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Acontinue

Bbreak

Cecho 'Loop finished'

Dexit

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'break' to skip number 3 which stops the loop early.

Using 'exit' after the loop which ends the script abruptly.

Use 'continue' to skip 3, 'break' to stop at 6, and print a message after the loop.