in reply to Road to a readable path

I had another look at this after all the replies here, and found that perl provides a way to do this without actually using any Perl! 
echo %PATH% | perl -073 -p -l012 -e ""

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Conclusion: When using perl, using Perl is optional...

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use JAPH;
print JAPH::asString();

In Section Cool Uses for Perl