break in Mac OS X
By: Strauss K
Exit
from a for
, while,
until
or select
loop.
Syntax break [n]
If n is specified, break n levels.
n must be >= 1. If n is greater than the number of enclosing loops, all enclosing loops are exited.
The return value is 0 unless the shell is not executing a loop when break is executed.
Example
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 do echo -n "Hello World${i} " if [ "$i" -eq 3 ] then break # This line will break out of the loop fi done
break is a builtin command.
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