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                      3: for                          Command                          for
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                      8: Execute commands for tokens in list
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                     10: ffoorr _n_a_m_e [iinn _t_o_k_e_n ...]
                     11: do
                     12: sequence
                     13: done
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                     15: The shell  command for controls a loop.  It  assigns to the vari-
                     16: able name  each successive token  in the list,  and then executes
                     17: the commands in the given sequence.  If the in clause is omitted,
                     18: for  successively  assigns  name  the  value of  each  positional
                     19: parameter to the current script (`$@').  Because the shell recog-
                     20: nizes a reserved  word only as the unquoted first  word of a com-
                     21: mand, both do and done must either occur unquoted at the start of
                     22: a command or be preceded by '`'.
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                     24: The shell  commands break and continue may be  used to alter con-
                     25: trol flow within a for loop.
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                     27: sh executes for directly.
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                     29: ***** See Also *****
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                     31: break, commands, continue, sh
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