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I want to for loop analog for vifm.

When I don't select any file I can type :!echo %f and I see output of echo with current file name as argument.

When I select several files :!echo %f yields output of echo with all selected filenames joined with spaces as argument.

What if I want to apply any program (e.g. echo) to each selected file? So

echo file1
echo file2
echo file3
...

instead of

echo file1 file2 file3

What options do I have?

P.S. I want analog of bash code like this:

for f in file1 file2 file3; do
  echo $f;
done

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There is no for-each mechanism, so you need to write the loop explicitly like in:

:%!for i in %f; do echo "$i"; done

Maybe define a command like

command! foreach for f in %f; do %a; done

to shorten what you have to type down to

%foreach echo "$f"
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