[partdavid]

True. And here is where what people think is a virtue of a standard Unix shell (zsh or bash, say) is actually not as good as it seems ("it's already everywhere"); because shells like this don't have dependency management, you have to do it all yourself. Either out of band (make sure curl and jq is installed, which awk is this? oh and all the other little things that are buried in my scripts and functions but are not declared in a standard way). Now I have a full-on configuration management problem that I will need to integrate--just to make your shell scripts, snippets and functions work) or by bizarre horkiness in your scripts (pure-bash json libs, anyone?).

Interestingly, if all of your machines were to have Powershell core, you can actually do a lot of what you describe over SSH more elegantly with Powershell remoting.