\section while while - perform a command multiple times \subsection while-synopsis Synopsis while CONDITION; COMMANDS; end \subsection while-synopsis Synopsis The while builtin causes fish to continually execute the command COMMANDS while the command CONDITION returns with status 0. \subsection while-example Example while test -f foo.txt; echo file exists; sleep 10; end causes fish to print the line 'file exists' at 10 second intervals as long as the file foo.txt exists.