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Path can have one or more items
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What do you mean &quot;there are no semicolons in a path statement&quot;? My path (echo %path%) looks something like this:<br />
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path1;path2;path3<br />

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What do you mean "there are no semicolons in a path statement"? My path (echo %path%) looks something like this:

path1;path2;path3


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That's okay, in that case, it's the regular delimiter for the different paths.<br />
But theoretically, a semicolon could be part of a directory path:<br />
%systemroot%\system32;%sys<wbr />temroot%;&quot;<wbr />C:\Some\Fo<wbr />lder\with a ; in it&quot;;C:\Program Files\Acme<br />
That's when it gets ugly, because the &quot;for&quot; command wouldn't care about the quotation marks around the directory, and break it up to<br />
%systemroot%\system32<br />
%systemroot%<br />
&quot;C:\Some\Folder\with a<br />
in it&quot;<br />
C:\Program Files\Acme<br />
Not that i can remember having ever come across a folder name with a semicolon in it, and it's even less likely for it to appear in a system's path, but just for the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned ...<br />

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That's okay, in that case, it's the regular delimiter for the different paths.
But theoretically, a semicolon could be part of a directory path:
%systemroot%\system32;%systemroot%;"C:\Some\Folder\with a ; in it";C:\Program Files\Acme
That's when it gets ugly, because the "for" command wouldn't care about the quotation marks around the directory, and break it up to
%systemroot%\system32
%systemroot%
"C:\Some\Folder\with a
in it"
C:\Program Files\Acme
Not that i can remember having ever come across a folder name with a semicolon in it, and it's even less likely for it to appear in a system's path, but just for the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned ...


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I need a batch script that would echo each path in a new line. So far I have this which echoes all the paths in the same line:<br />
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FOR /F &quot;tokens=* delims=;&quot; %%A IN ('ECHO %path%') DO echo %%A<br />
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Thanks
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I need a batch script that would echo each path in a new line. So far I have this which echoes all the paths in the same line:

FOR /F "tokens=* delims=;" %%A IN ('ECHO %path%') DO echo %%A

Thanks

Batch script: echo each path in new line

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