CONTINUE(1)

✨ CONTINUE(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is continue from the fish-shell manual, and honestly? she's a tiny little icon and she runs the whole vibe of your loops. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

continue — skips the rest of the current iteration of the current inner loop. that's it, that's the whole gig. no cap. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

LOOP_CONSTRUCT; [COMMANDS ...;] continue; [COMMANDS ...;] end

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so continue literally just bails out of the rest of the current iteration of the current inner loop — like a for loop or a while loop. it doesn't nuke the whole loop, she's not that dramatic (that's break's job, more on her later 👀). she just goes "nope, skipping to the next round" and keeps the party going. 🔥

and the way she's normally used? you tuck her inside a conditional block, like an if statement or a switch statement, so she only bounces when the vibes call for it. conditional queen energy fr fr. 👑

also!! the -h or --help option displays help about using this command. handy when you forget stuff, which, relatable. 🙈

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⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

this little number clears out all your tmp files that don't contain the word smurf. and the continue is the main character here, obviously:

for i in *.tmp
    if grep smurf $i
        continue
    end
    # This "rm" is skipped over if "continue" is executed.
    rm $i
    # As is this "echo"
    echo $i
end

see how the comments spell it out? if continue fires, the rm gets skipped over — and the echo too. both just ✨gone✨. that's her whole thing: anything below her in that iteration? not happening. slay. 🦋

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• the break command — for when you wanna stop the current inner loop entirely instead of just skipping one round. she's the louder sister, iykyk. 💀

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright © fish-shell developers. give credit where it's due bestie. 💜

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so yeah, that's continue — fish-shell manual, version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026. go forth and loop responsibly, my little shell gremlin. 🌈✨🍓