I tend to agree. After working with data outputs from a variety of Linux sources for years I find the PS output is much more standardized -- or at least PS hand

I tend to agree. After working with data outputs from a variety of Linux sources for years I find the PS output is much more standardized -- or at least PS handles string outputs in a much more standardized way. I love the Select-String ... approach to field display. Making and outputting tables in PS is much slicker than the same magic on Linux. Ugly is a matter of opinion, but the real magic of PS is never having to drop characters or spaces to munge text into a column.