How to search for file paths using grep-CodePudding

I am trying to get all of the file paths that are listed in a certain file and store them in an array for further use

The file paths within the files look like this:

include /app/...;

#include /app/...; #comment

But the the file also has other file paths so I want to find just the ones that start with include.

I tried grep 'include /[^"]*' <fileToSearch> but it is missing some files and doesn't capture them

Any help will be appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

You can try this regex:

grep 'include\s / [\w\\\-/ .]*' <fileToSearch>

Explanation: this regex match all pathes after the keyword "include" and starting by a /. The keyword and the path can be separated by any number of whitespace character.

CodePudding user response：

grep looks for any line that contains the string and return whole line.

grep "^include." or grep "^#include."

If you want to get only path (without include statement), you should use sed, awk...