#!/bin/bash #continuing an outer loop for (( a=1; a<=5; a++)) do echo "Iteration $a:" for (( b=1; b<3; b++ )) do if [ $a -gt 2 ] && [ $a -lt 4 ] then continue 2 fi var3=$[ $a * $b ] echo " The result of $a * $b is $var3" done done