You can use the below command: grep -o '[[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*' i

Hi All, Can you please let me know how to grep for a
particular pattern in unix. I want to print the dates from
the file exp.txt. the date pattern is DD:MM:YYYY, I just
want to print all the dates from the file exp.txt.

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Answer Posted / uttamjit

You can use the below command:
grep -o '[[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*' infile

where infile is the input file to grep command.

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