On Windows, you don't even need Perl to get a readable path:

for %i in ("%path:;=" "%") do @echo %i

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Produces this (for my path):

{C} > for %i in ("%path:;=" "%") do @echo %i
"C:\usr\bin"
"C:\Perl\bin"
"C:\WINDOWS\system32"
"C:\WINDOWS"
"C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem"
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\"
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\bin"

{C} >

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UPDATE: Use "set /?" at the command prompt to find out the new options for environment variable substitution (the %path:;=" "%). Basically, I wrap the %PATH% ENV var in double quotes and then replace all the semicolon separators with a double-quote, space, double quote. This effecitely puts double quotes around all the paths (so spaces won't give any troubles) and we use the for loop to list each newly double-quoted string

In reply to Re: Road to a readable path by VinsWorldcom
in thread Road to a readable path by wol

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