It passes all your test cases :)

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11130527 use warnings; local $_ = <<END; /usr/vsa/pkgs/python3/3.6.3a/bin/python3.6 /usr/vsa -> /root/site/tools/gauv /usr/vsa/pkgs/python3/3.6.3a -> 3.6.3 END s!^(\S+/)([^\s/]+) -> \K([^/]\S*)!$1$3!gm; # fixup relative my $was = ''; while( $was ne $_ ) { my %links; $links{$1} = $2 while /^(\S+) -> (\S+)/gm; $was = $_; for my $link ( sort keys %links ) { s~(?<!\S)\Q$link\E(?=/)~$links{$link}~; # replace links } } my %subpaths; m~^(\S+)(?=[\s/])(?{$subpaths{$1}++})(*FAIL)~m; # get all subpaths my @subpaths = sort { length $a <=> length $b } sort keys %subpaths; print "$_\n" for @subpaths;

Outputs:

/usr /root /usr/vsa /root/site /root/site/tools /root/site/tools/gauv /root/site/tools/gauv/pkgs /root/site/tools/gauv/pkgs/python3 /root/site/tools/gauv/pkgs/python3/3.6.3 /root/site/tools/gauv/pkgs/python3/3.6.3a /root/site/tools/gauv/pkgs/python3/3.6.3/bin /root/site/tools/gauv/pkgs/python3/3.6.3/bin/python3.6

In reply to Re: Getting all subpaths from a path by tybalt89
in thread Getting all subpaths from a path by ovedpo15

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