limiting a regular expression

Hi All,
As we all know Regular Expressions are very greedy and tries to big as big
as possible.
How do i limit a regular expression for example ion the follwing case
 
i try to find a specific directory called tmp_* in some paths which are like
this
 
/dir1/dir2/dir3/tmp_test1/dir4/dir5.../.../...
/dir6/dir7/dir8/tmp_test2/dir9/dir10../.../..../...
 
if i use (\S+) it will also catch the following dirs, even if i use (\S+)\/
Any suggestions ?
Thx Roiy
 

• limiting a regular expression by Zysman, Roiy
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