Re: Road to a readable path

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

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Re^2: Road to a readable path (unix, non-perl) by toolic (Bishop) on Apr 15, 2009 at 14:07 UTC
Nor on unix... `$ echo $PATH \| tr ':' '\n'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Road to a readable path (unix, non-perl) by Daenyth (Novice) on Jun 02, 2009 at 19:02 UTC
`echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Road to a readable path (unix, non-perl) by parv (Parson) on Jun 03, 2009 at 10:37 UTC
Unadorned `echo` may or may not support a particular option, dependent on if it is a shell (which one?) built in or an external command. See the start & the bottom of GNU echo invocation; mix in korn-shell (sic) for extra fun. Variable expansion(substitution) is also shell dependent ... generates error `${PATH/...}: Bad substitution` in FreeBSD 6 /bin/sh (ash); generates error `Missing }` in tcsh 6.15; at least works in zsh 4 & bash 3* here.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Road to a readable path by Burak (Chaplain) on May 11, 2009 at 21:10 UTC
On Windows, you don't even need Perl to get a readable path Yeah, but you have to do it in a sucky way :p FYI: when you install perl, you also get the "pl2bat" program (it's actually there to support module installation process I believe) to turn your perl programs into *.bat, so that you don't have to write that dumb basic-ish thing to have general purpose commands on you system.	[reply]