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Bash - Split Path

Easy tool to split the current $PATH of the system into individual lines.

#!/bin/bash
{

  for i in $(echo "$PATH" | sed 's/:/ /g'); do echo $i;  done;

} || echo "Failed."; exit 127;

Example

ExampleStation:~ genuser1$ for i in $(echo "$PATH" | sed 's/:/ /g'); do echo $i;  done;
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/go/bin
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split-path.sh
#!/bin/bash
{
for i in $(echo "$PATH" | sed 's/:/ /g'); do echo $i; done;
} || echo "Failed."; exit 127;
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