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List permissions of environment path with powershell

I would like to write a script which lists/exports the permissions of the directories in Path.

To get the path variables I use $env:Path but this lists the variables as one large string. How can I get the variable in a object to proceed further? Next, I would like to get the permissions get-acl.

Thanks for your support.

DonQui

Solution

  • Use the -split operator to split the string like so,

    $arr = $env:path -split ";"
$arr
%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
C:\windows\system32
C:\windows
...

    The $arr variable contents can be piped to, say, foreach for further processing like so,

    $arr | % {
  $_
}