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\section for for - perform a set of commands multiple times.
\subsection for-synopsis Synopsis
\fish{syn}
for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end
\endfish
\subsection for-description Description
`for` is a loop construct. It will perform the commands specified by
`COMMANDS` multiple times. On each iteration, 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
\fish
for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end
# would output:
foo
bar
baz
\endfish