Hi, There is an inconsistency between the man page and the texinfo page regarding continue and break. I've attached a patch that addresses this.
--- bash-3.2/doc/bash.1 2006-10-03 08:54:26.000000000 -0400 +++ bash-3.2/doc/bash.1.liketexi 2008-05-16 17:17:11.000000000 -0400 @@ -6086,10 +6086,9 @@ must be \(>= 1. If .I n is greater than the number of enclosing loops, all enclosing loops -are exited. The return value is 0 unless the shell is not executing -a loop when -.B break -is executed. +are exited. The return value is 0 unless +.I n +is not \(>= 1. .TP \fBbuiltin\fP \fIshell\-builtin\fP [\fIarguments\fP] Execute the specified shell builtin, passing it @@ -6430,9 +6429,8 @@ .I n is greater than the number of enclosing loops, the last enclosing loop (the ``top-level'' loop) is resumed. The return value is 0 unless the -shell is not executing a loop when -.B continue -is executed. +.I n +is not \(>= 1. .TP \fBdeclare\fP [\fB\-afFirtx\fP] [\fB\-p\fP] [\fIname\fP[=\fIvalue\fP] ...] .PD 0
