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According to Bruno Haible on 6/23/2007 1:09 PM:
> But then use IFS (so that PATH elements containing spaces are handled
> correctly), ignoring empty fields from the cases C and D. In summary,
> something like this:
> 
>   pathx=`echo ":$PATH:" | sed -e 's/:::*/:.:/g' -e 's/^://' -e 's/:\$//'`

Or, to avoid the sed when possible, you could do

case `echo ":$PATH:" in
  *::*) pathx=`echo ":$PATH:" \
               | sed -e 's/:::*/:.:/g' -e 's/^://' -e 's/:\$//'` ;;
esac

>   save_IFS=$IFS
>   IFS=:
>   for d in $pathx; do
>     IFS=$save_IFS
>     ...
>   done
>   IFS=$save_IFS
> 

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

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