.TH "for" 1 "8 Feb 2007" "Version 1.22.3" "fish" \" -*- nroff -*-
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.SH NAME
for - perform a set of commands multiple times.
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.SS "Synopsis"
\fCfor VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end\fP
.SS "Description"
\fCfor\fP is a loop construct. It will perform the commands specified by COMMANDS multiple times. Each time the environment variable specified by VARNAME is assigned a new value from VALUES. If VALUES is empty, COMMANDS will not be executed at all.
.SS "Example"
The command
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\fCfor i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end\fP
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would output:
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.nf

foo
bar
baz
.fi
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