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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 <tt>COMMANDS</tt> multiple times. Each time the environment variable
specified by <tt>VARNAME</tt> is assigned a new value from <tt>VALUES</tt>.
\subsection for-example Example
The command
<tt>for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end</tt>
would output:
<pre>foo
bar
baz</pre>