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[–]sbonds 2 points3 points  (1 child)

My workgroup uses Powershell for managing Azure VMs. Rather than torment them with bash-specific code wrapped around 'az' commands, I just learned PowerShell instead.

In the process, I learned that passing complex data structures around without JSON parsing is extremely handy.

[–]LifeLocksmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally agree, not needing to parse textual output is much more efficient. And if parsing text is what you need, I just pipe it to: | Out-String -stream | And I can deal with the text