Pretty Print $PATH
Created on July 10, 2025
linux
When you echo $PATH, the output is not read-friendly. Here is a simple way to spread each path on a new line instead of using colons.
This has been in my config for a long time. I wondered today how I implemented it, here it is:
# either:
echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | sort
# or:
echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g' | fzf
# put it in your .zshrc:
which pretty_path
pretty_path () {
echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | sort
}