Grep for Two or More Expressions

Unfortunately a database of mine crashed. Fortunately, I have log files with the data. I need the timestamp and the data.

The lines in the log files look something like this: ####### collect $TIMESTAMP ######### *GARBAGE *GARBAGE *GARBAGE $ID:=$DATASET *GARBAGE

It's been years since I've done anything more than a simple grep. I wasn't even sure which grep I needed... egrep? fgrep? grep?

I can use this regex for the timestamp line:

```bash

I can use this regex for the dataset line:

```bash

But how can I put them together? It's probably of no surpise that I can use the '|' operator like so:

```bash

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-JP

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