fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/for.rst
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.. _cmd-for:
for - perform a set of commands multiple times
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Synopsis
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::
for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end
Description
-----------
``for`` is a loop construct. It will perform the commands specified by ``COMMANDS`` multiple times. On each iteration, the local variable specified by ``VARNAME`` is assigned a new value from ``VALUES``. If ``VALUES`` is empty, ``COMMANDS`` will not be executed at all. The ``VARNAME`` is visible when the loop terminates and will contain the last value assigned to it. If ``VARNAME`` does not already exist it will be set in the local scope. For our purposes if the ``for`` block is inside a function there must be a local variable with the same name. If the ``for`` block is not nested inside a function then global and universal variables of the same name will be used if they exist.
Example
-------
::
for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end
# would output:
foo
bar
baz
Notes
-----
The ``VARNAME`` was local to the for block in releases prior to 3.0.0. This means that if you did something like this:
::
for var in a b c
if break_from_loop
break
end
end
echo $var
The last value assigned to ``var`` when the loop terminated would not be available outside the loop. What ``echo $var`` would write depended on what it was set to before the loop was run. Likely nothing.