for

Langue: en

Version: 148299 (fedora - 04/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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