Cake\Shell\Task\ExtractTask::_searchFiles PHP Method

    protected function _searchFiles()
    {
        $pattern = false;
        if (!empty($this->_exclude)) {
            $exclude = [];
            foreach ($this->_exclude as $e) {
                if (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR !== '\\' && $e[0] !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
                    $e = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $e;
                }
                $exclude[] = preg_quote($e, '/');
            }
            $pattern = '/' . implode('|', $exclude) . '/';
        }
        foreach ($this->_paths as $path) {
            $path = realpath($path) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
            $Folder = new Folder($path);
            $files = $Folder->findRecursive('.*\\.(php|ctp|thtml|inc|tpl)', true);
            if (!empty($pattern)) {
                $files = preg_grep($pattern, $files, PREG_GREP_INVERT);
                $files = array_values($files);
            }
            $this->_files = array_merge($this->_files, $files);
        }
        $this->_files = array_unique($this->_files);
    }