Show directories in the PATH, one per line

echo "${PATH//:/$'\n'}"

Shorter version.

Sample Output

/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin

By: camspiers

2009-08-26 23:12:05

echo bash PATH

5 Alternatives + Submit Alt

Show directories in the PATH, one per line

This version uses Pipes, but is easier for the common user to grasp... instead of using sed or some other more complicated method, it uses the tr command Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin
/usr/kerberos/bin
/usr/lib/ccache
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/sbin
.... (and so on)
```
15

echo $PATH | tr \: \\n

crk · 2009-09-09 02:10:04 20
Show directories in the PATH, one per line

The output of "echo $PATH" is hard to read, this is much easier. The parentheses ensure that the change to the input field separator (IFS) only happens the the sub shell and not affecting the current shell. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/bin
.
```
3

( IFS=:; for p in $PATH; do echo $p; done )

haivu · 2009-03-19 22:45:47 8
Show directories in the PATH, one per line

quoteless Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
```
1

echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}

kristidev · 2011-08-02 03:22:46 4
Show directories in the PATH, one per line

Removes trailing newline; colon becomes record separator and newline becomes field separator, only the first field is ever printed. Replaces empty entries with $PWD. Also prepend relative directories (like ".") with the current directory ($PWD). Can change PWD with env(1) to get tricky in (non-Bourne) scripts. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/tmp/src
/tmp
/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_11/bin
/home/arcege/local/bin
/home/arcege/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
/opt/real/RealPlayer
/tmp/.
/usr/java/apache-ant-1.7.0/bin
```
-2

echo src::${PATH} | awk 'BEGIN{pwd=ENVIRON["PWD"];RS=":";FS="\n"}!$1{$1=pwd}$1!~/^\//{$1=pwd"/"$1}{print $1}'

arcege · 2009-09-09 04:03:46 3
Show directories in the PATH, one per line

This doesn't work in bash, but in zsh you can typeset -T to bind a scalar variable to an array. $PATH and $path behave this way by default.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-4

print -l $path

Mikachu · 2009-08-27 16:33:04 3

What Others Think

Shouldn't it be?: echo "${PATH//:/$'\n'}"

plasticdoc · 788 weeks and 6 days ago

Yes, it's like plasticdoc said, if not they will be displayed in one line, space separated.

inkel · 788 weeks and 6 days ago

echo -e "${PATH//:/\n}" Ya plasticdoc is correct. Using that builtin version is by far the best.

AskApache · 785 weeks and 4 days ago

display only existing+exec with only builtins: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3535/show-only-existing-executable-dirs-in-path-using-only-builtin-bash-commands

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