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With “END” being just an example of any random string that must not appear in the commented section:

: << 'END'
sleep 1
END

Different options:

# option 1, without variable
for x in a b c; do echo $x; done
 
# option 2, with string
list="a b c"
for x in $list; do echo $x; done         # only works with sh and bash
for x in ${=list}; do echo $x; done      # only works with zsh
for x in $(echo $list}; do echo $x; done # works with any shell
 
# option 3, with an array
list=(a b c)
for x in $list; do echo $x; done

Use find, with {} being the file name:

find . -type f -exec <command> {} \;
find -iname "<pattern>" -exec <command> {} \;

Manual solution:

#!/bin/sh
 
function search_dir()
{
    DIR=$1;
 
    for file in $DIR/*; do
        if [[ -f $file ]]; then
            echo "Do something with $file"
        fi;
    done
 
 
    for element in $DIR/* ; do
        if [[ -e $element && -d $element && \
            $(basename "$element") != ".." && \
            $(basename "$element") != "." ]]; then
 
            search_dir "$element";
        fi;
    done;
}
 
search_dir "."

• Default value for variable:

  ${<variable>:-<default-value>}

• Get directory of current script (for instance in order to run a script that is stored in the same directory, or in a known relative path):

  BASEDIR=$(dirname "$0")

• echo to stderr, just redirect the output:

  echo "foo" 1>&2

• Convert dash-time to ISO (2024-04-21_15-50-30 to 2024-04-21T15:50:30, for instance to use it as input for date):

  sed -r "s/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})_([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})/\1-\2\-3T\4:\5:\6/"

• Get target name of symbolic link:

  readlink <symbolic-link>

• Execute command:

  var=`cat file`
  var=$(cat file)

• Evaluate mathematical expression (zsh also supports floating-point operations):

  echo $((2*3))

• time with redirected output (also works for groups of commands):

  time (cat file1 > file2)
  time (cat file1 > /dev/null; sync)

• Check number of arguments and print usage:

  if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
          echo "Usage: foo.sh <arg1> <arg2>" 1>&2
          exit 1
  fi

• Load command output as a file:

  diff <(grep x file1) <(grep y file2)