You seem to have articulated all my thoughts perfectly. The thing about parsing text is a very huge pain point for me because I've had some tool change their o

You seem to have articulated all my thoughts perfectly. The thing about parsing text is a very huge pain point for me because I've had some tool change their output (and unicode issues) which broke some scripts. The structured nature of PS makes it very powerful and allowed me to write a script that checks the latest versions of some software upstream and tells me if there are updates. I have that on bash as well but it's comparatively unmaintainable.