How to make Windows %path% readable

If like me your Windows %path% looks something like this:

PATH=c:rubybin;C:Perlsitebin;C:Perlbin;C:Oracle
OraHome817bin;C:oracleproduct10.2.0gpdbin;C:Program 
FilesOraclejre1.1.7bin;C:Python26;C:Python26scripts;C:
Python26Libidlelib;C:cygwinbin;C:Program FilesWindows 
Resource KitsTools;C:WINDOWSsystem32;C:WINDOWS;C:WINDOWS
Downloaded ProgramFiles;C:Program FilesIBMDirectorbin;C:
Program FilesDiskeeper CorporationDiskeeper;c:Program 
FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Toolsbinn;C:Program Files
Rationalcommon;c:scripts;C:Program FilesjEdit;C:Program 
FilesQuickTimeQTSystem;C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbin;C:
ipdsdevaxis2axis2c-rel-1.3.0lib;C:Program FilesJava
jdk1.5.0_16bin;C:jruby-1.2.0bin

Then save this to "road.bat" somewhere on your path:

@echo off
rem source: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=757655
for %%i in ("%path:;=" "%") do @echo %%i

When you run C:\>road all those paths are nicely split and one-lined:

C:>road
"c:rubybin"
"C:Perlsitebin"
"C:Perlbin"
"C:OracleOraHome817bin"
"C:oracleproduct10.2.0gpdbin"
...

and you can do cool things like C:\>road | find /i "Perl" to find out where Perl is hiding.

To paraphrase the (brilliant) author VinsWorldcom, this one-liner

wraps the %PATH% ENV var in double quotes and then replaces all the semicolon separators with a double-quote, space, double quote. This effectively puts double quotes around all the paths (so spaces won't give any troubles) then use the for loop to list each newly double-quoted string.