Korn Shell Programming by Example

for

Official Description

Begins a for loop.

Syntax

for identifier [in word...] ;do list ;done
for (( initializer;
					test;
					increment ))

Options

None

Oddities

The second format is not available prior to ksh93.

Example

$ ls b*
buzz  buzz1  buzz2  buzz3  buzz4
$
$ for x in b*                # Each loop pass is made with a new filename
                             # in variable x
> do
> print $x
> done
buzz
buzz1
buzz2
buzz3
buzz4
$