If you have a C language background, you will be happy to know that you can write your for loops in C-style. This feature was taken from KornShell. The shell for loop can be written like this:
for (v= 0; v < 5; v++) { printf(Value is %d\n", v); }
It is easy for C developers to use this syntax in for loops.
Check out this example:
#!/bin/bash for (( v=1; v <= 10; v++ )) do echo "value is $v" done
The choice is yours; you have a lot of syntax styles for the for loop.