fish-shell/doc_src/for.txt
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\section for for - perform a set of commands multiple times.
\subsection for-synopsis Synopsis
<tt>for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end</tt>
\subsection for-description Description
<tt>for</tt> 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.
\subsection for-example Example
The command
<tt>for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end</tt>
would output:
<pre>
foo
bar
baz
</pre>