Ed Lawson wrote:
> My son who is working at an unamed, but major health care institution in 
> boston has a desparate
> need to extract all instances of  the following four text strings in a 6 
> meg file:
> 
> po=
> to=
> delay=
> dsn=4

try

grep -E '(po|to|delay)=|dsn=4'  filename
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