for(1)                                                           for(1)

  for

  NAME

    for - execute commands for each item in a list

  SYNOPSIS

    for name [ in word ... term ] do list done

  DESCRIPTION

    This command is a Korn-shell built-in command.

    For each word in the specified word list, the parameter name is set to the
    word and list is executed. If in is not used to specify a word list,
    positional parameters ($1, $2, and so on) are used instead. The term
    operand is either a newline or a semicolon (;). For historical reasons,
    open and close braces may be used instead of do and done (such as for i; {
    echo $i; }). The exit status of a for statement is the last exit status of
    list; if list is never executed, the exit status is zero.