Shell Programming and Scripting

1: look through the list of files and find those that meet the re-process condition
2: increment a counter to track the number of files that meet the contrition
3: re-process files that meet the condition
4: GOTO 1 unless the counter==0

# zero stop condition
STOP=0

 # keep looping until stop condition is met
 while [ "$STOP" -ne "1" ] 
 do

   ###create list of current files
   $FILES

   ### check list for re-process condition and add filename to array
   for FILENAME in $FILES
   do
      if [ "$VALUE1" == "$VALUE2" ]; then
         FILENAMES_TO_PROCESS=("${FILENAMES_TO_PROCESS[@]}" "$FILENAME")
      fi
   done

   ### check if any files were found to re-process
   # if no files are found that meet the re-process condition
   if [ "${#FILENAMES_TO_PROCESS[@]}" == "0" ]; then
      echo "no files require reprocessing"
      # set condition to exit while loop
      STOP=1
   # if files are found, re-process files on the list
   else
      # rm file that is being reprocessed
      # code to reprocess files that need it
      ...
   if

   # do statistics on re-processed files, this will create an updated filename for any re-processed file
   # filenames of re-processed files will be re-checked on next loop

done

while [ counter -gt 0 ]
    do ( your steps 1 .. 3 )
    done
echo "no files require reprocessing"

#!/bin/bash
function1()
{
 echo this is function 1
}
function2()
{
 echo this is function 2
}
function3()
{
 echo this is function 3
}

f=1
while [ $f -le 3 ]
do
   function$f
   ((f=$f+1))
done

:
:
while true
do
   function$f
done