Batch scripting printing with a FOR all the entries of the "Path variable"

Question

I'm trying to parse my "Path" environment variable with a Batch line command. What I would like to achieve is having each substring of the "Path" variable to be printed on a different line.

With the following, I can print each token of the "Path" using semicolon ";" as a separator :

For /F "tokens=* delims=;" %i in ("%Path%") do @echo %i

but my output is C:\blabla1\bin C:\blabla2\bin C:\blabla3\bin C:\blabla4\bin . I would like to concat the carriage return, but I'm not able to do that.

Any suggestions? Thanks

p.s. I would like to achieve this within a single command line, avoiding to use a script saved in a separate .bat file

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '13 at 15:24

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assuming you don't have a path with ; in it's name try this:

@ECHO OFF &SETLOCAL
SET "mypath=%path%"
SET mypath=%mypath:;=";"%
FOR %%a IN ("%mypath%") DO ECHO %%~a

answered Jul 24 '13 at 15:24

Endoro

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '13 at 15:24

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Call :Entry %Path%
GoTo :EOF

:Entry
For /F "Tokens=1,* Delims=;" %%i In ("%1") Do (
    Set Entry=%%i
    Set Remaining=%%j
)
Rem Do something with %Entry% ...
If Defined Remaining Call :Entry %Remaining%
GoTo :EOF

answered Jul 24 '13 at 15:24

LS_ᴅᴇᴠ

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I've read many times about using %%i , but it is not working for me. I'd rather use %i, but I didn't actually get the difference. Using your script with %%i returns " %%i was unexpected at this time" . Thanks for the answer – Ren0 Jul 24 '13 at 15:29
there is a nice answer from jeb [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5472168/2098699). – Endoro Jul 24 '13 at 15:56

Batch scripting printing with a FOR all the entries of the "Path variable"

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