This is the fundamental differentiation of Powershell, right? UNIX operates on text streams while Powershell operates on structured data. It is in a better posi

This is the fundamental differentiation of Powershell, right? UNIX operates on text streams while Powershell operates on structured data. It is in a better position to do this kind of stuff. That aside, a lot of contemporary cloudy CLIs will now speak json on stdin/out and JQ will make any json transformations you can imagine.