Mastodawn

Run the following to see your PATH settings in easy to read format on screen:
```
tr ":" "\n" <<<"$PATH"
tr ":" "\n" <<<"$PATH" | lolcat
```
This is a little more portable
```
echo "$PATH" | tr ":" "\n"
echo "$PATH" | tr ":" "\n" | lolcat
```

#unix #linux

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kodegeek Mar 15

@nixCraft Hi.

I love tr but I love pure Bash even more:

IFS=':' read -r -a path_parts <<< "$PATH"; printf '%s\n' "${path_parts[@]}"

By the way, get ready for every opinionated sysadmin to post here, we are wired that way :-D

Thanks for sharing.

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JdeBP Mar 15

@josevnz

Looks complex. (-:

C shell:

% printf '%s\n' $path

Z shell:

% printf '%q\n' "$path[@]"

#UnixShells #CShell #ZShell #zsh #csh

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Haelwenn /элвэн/

Mar 15

@JdeBP @josevnz Yeah, IFS for just that makes it needlessly complex when it can also be like this:

ksh, mksh, zsh: $ echo ${PATH//:/\\n}

ksh, mksh, bash, yash, busybox sh, sash: $ echo "${PATH//:/$'\n'}"

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kodegeek

@lanodan @JdeBP Oh yeah, I forgot about the Bash regex substitution. Yeah, this is the best solution.