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[debut]

Hello there,

As a newbie:

The directories in PATH can be hard to distinguish when printed out as
one line with colon .Please, can i have a sample script to display
them,one to a line.

Thank you.

[Nobber]

Try:

echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g'

at the bash prompt.
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[Nigel]

Try this command :

[Nigel]

[nelz]

There are two major differences with awk vs. sed

1) You can use both
2) you can admit to using both

sed seems somewhat simpler for this particular operation.
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[Nigel]

[nelz]

I'm the other way around. I know sed reasonably ell and rarely use awk. awk looks a lot more powerful, but I need to read the man pages again whenever I want to use it.
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[A-Wing]

I use awk all the time simply because I have never tried to use sed, a bit like Nigel really
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