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→INVESTIGATION 2: ADDITIONAL LOOPING STATEMENTS
# Enter the following lines in your shell script:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;"><br>value=1<br>while [ $value -le 5 ]<br>do<br> echo "$value"<br> value=value+1<br>done<br></span><br>
# Save your editing session and exit the text editor (eg. with vi: press '''ESC''', then type ''':wx''' followed by '''ENTER''').<br><br>
# Set execute permissions for this shell script and run your shell script by issuing: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">./for-6.bash</span><br><br>What do you notice? You should have noticed an error message.<br><br>In our lesson, we mentioned that values in user-defined variables are stored as '''TEXT'''. <br>Therefore, we need to convert a number stored as text into a '''binary number ''' for calculations (in this case, advance the value by 1 for each loop).<br><br>
:In the next investigation, you will learn to create and test-out the '''~/.bashrc''' start-up file to customize your Bash shell.
