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How to loop over an array in Bash

Find out how to loop over an array in Bash

I had an array of 3 strings:

list=( "first" "second" "third" )

and I wanted to loop over them in a bash shell script.

Here’s how I did it:

for i in "${list[@]}"
do
   : 
   echo $i
done

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