Weirdly enough, INI is not that well-supported; but yeah, it's loads better than stuff like curl/jq for the very common JSON, YAML and other structured data cases (which includes near-100% native support for what you are commonly running shell utilities for: ls, ps, and so forth). The best part is that it's integrated into the shell language at the top-level so you can leverage whatever you learn to sort, filter and process all kinds of structured data, and explore and manipulate in a straightforward way. It's very powerful to freely intermix gci, gi, irm output and script together these various sources.
And it's full of delightful tricks, like when you discover properly-throttled parallelism is easy (% -parallel {}) and you don't need to dive into yet another tool-specific abstruse sublanguage.
And it's full of delightful tricks, like when you discover properly-throttled parallelism is easy (% -parallel {}) and you don't need to dive into yet another tool-specific abstruse sublanguage.