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\subsection for-synopsis Synopsis
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<tt>for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end</tt>
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\subsection for-description Description
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<tt>for</tt> is a loop construct. It will perform the commands specified by
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Help cleanup
Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands.
More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break,
builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced,
function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd,
pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type,
ulimit, umask, and while.
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\c COMMANDS multiple times. On each iteration, the environment variable specified by
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\subsection for-example Example
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The command
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<tt>for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end</tt>
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would output:
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