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Perhaps you could use:
bash-4.1$ str="a0=bus a1=car a2=truck"
bash-4.1$ nustr=`echo $str | sed "s/a.=//g"`
bash-4.1$ echo $nustr

I think the problem of occurrence is the use of the "^".

sed 's/\(\.[0-9][0-9]\).*$/\1/g'

EDIT: Missed a backslash

so if the command1 is :
grep $1 $p|sed s/.*=.//|sed 's/<.*//'
and command2 is :
grep "$*" $q|cut -c77-78
and you want to grep the command1's result in command2:
grep "`grep $1 $p|sed...

Well, I think this is all you need!

#!/bin/bash
grep "$*" input_file
Right?

Initially I thought you wanted to have each argument as the search element.

--ahamed