Suggestion: rather than use egrep (which, as Chas points out, requires a new process - and ignoring his solution for a moment - sorry), it might make more sense (and increase portability) to move the RegEx parsing into Perl.
my $var = grep {/This|That/}, `cmd --arg1 --arg2;
(Did I do this right? I'm not very familiar with grep)
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