# continue

> Skip to the next iteration of a `for`, `while`, `until` or `select` loop.
> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-continue>.

- Skip to the next iteration:

`while :; do continue; echo "This will never be reached"; done`

- Skip to the next iteration from within a nested loop:

`for i in {1..3}; do while :; do continue 2; done; done`