jq if You CanBurned by bash parameter expansion today. For some reason ${line%% *}
did not work on the last line of input leaving a space and an extra
trailing thing. I suspect it was because there is a tab there but could
not confirm easily.
Moral of the story: if there is a JSON option always take it. You
don’t have that ambiguity with jq. It might cost a few milliseconds of
parsing time, but for 99.8% of SRE/DevOps/Cloud-Native tasks the
reliability is far more important than the speed.