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NAME
for - perform a set of commands multiple times.

  Synopsis
for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end

  Description
for 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.

  Example
The command

for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end

would output:

foo
bar
baz