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Extracting text from a text file in bash

I have a large text file that is all one line. In the text are several sections that looks like foo=12345 and I need to extract them all as separate lines, ignoring the rest of the file. For ...
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grep surrounding characters of a match

I'm looking to do a find and replace within a giant database dump, and it's not doing what I think should happen. I'd like to grep for my target string in the file, and then see the surrounding 8 ...