This document discusses handling repetition in programming through control structures like loops. It describes three common loop structures - the for loop, while loop, and until loop. The for loop executes a list of commands for each value in a list. The while loop repeatedly executes commands as long as a condition is true. The until loop repeatedly executes commands until a condition becomes true. Examples are provided for each loop type using shell script code. The document also discusses using functions to organize repetitive code into reusable blocks. Functions allow defining a named subroutine with its own set of commands.