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Loops in scripts can be incredibly useful because they allow you to repeat commands as many times as needed or until you kill the script. Here are some simple examples of using the for command.

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Most of the time, exiting a script leaves you sitting at the command prompt. If you need to log out of your Linux system from within a script, things get a little complicated.

More than just writing help scripts, here documents are useful any time that you want to enter multiple lines and have them piped to a command. We use them most often from the shell directly.