From a fairly quick perusal of the options, I don't think agrep will help much, except maybe as a pre-filter.
- It won't report where in a line a a match was found.
- It stops matching against a given line when it finds the first match.
- If you supply a file of things to match, it doesn't tell you which one matched.
Maybe I missed some things in amongst the six help 'screens'?
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