Stop Parsing (unstructured) Text

You can run powershell on Linux! This is the one thing I like about powershell: everything's an object under the hood.

Linux also has some shells working on structured data (e.g. nu and elvish). But those don't really help you on machines that don't have those installed.

In general, I think Powershell's approach is better than the traditional one, but I really dislike the general commands. Always feels weird using it.

You're welcome! And actually, even this approach can yield surprising results... As in have you heard of deprecated IPv6 addresses before? Well I hadn't until I realized my interface now had one (it actually didn't anymore when I wrote the post, I used the jq command on old output, not in a pipe). Which made my DynDNS script stop working because there was now a line break in the request URL that curl rightfully failed on.

Edit: also despite what the title of the post says, in not an authoritative expert on the matter and you can use whatever works for you. I see these posts more as a basis for discussions like here than definitive guides to do something the correct way.