[COFF] Powershell better than Bourne shell?

[Michael Kjörling]

On 19 Nov 2021 18:00 -0500, from tytso at mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
>     status=$(jq < "$inst_info" 2> /dev/null \
>         '.metadata.items[] | select(.key == "status") | .value' | \
> 	sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//')

That's likely a UUOS; Useless Use Of Sed. Try with `jq -r` instead.

(Spotted it because I found myself doing the exact same thing not long
ago. I guess that means I'm in good company.)

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