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Old 06-06-2006
split and print $PATH
Hello simple question :
how can i split the $PATH by the ":" seperator with one liner ?
mybe using awk is there any builtin function in awk that splits and prints the output ?
thanks
# 2  
Old 06-06-2006
Code:
echo $PATH | tr -s ':' '\n'

# 3  
Old 06-06-2006
for i in `echo $PATH | sed "s/:/ /g"`
do
echo $i
done

If you want to process the lines rather than just output them, replace echo with the processing.
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