# Example for a similar case

my @lines = (
"valid path /export/home/joe/data/01/",
"ignore this one /var/apache/htdocs/",
"valid path /usr/local/share/foobar/",
"just testing /var/log/secure",
"valid path /export/home/susan/recipes/"
);

for (@lines){
    if (m[^valid path\s+(/.*/)]){
        print "$1\n";
    }
}

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/export/home/joe/data/01/
/usr/local/share/foobar/
/export/home/susan/recipes/