yq
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  • yq
  • How It Works
  • Recipes
  • Upgrading from V3
  • Commands
    • Evaluate
    • Evaluate All
    • Shell Completion
  • Operators
    • Add
    • Alternative (Default value)
    • Anchor and Alias Operators
    • Array to Map
    • Assign (Update)
    • Boolean Operators
    • Collect into Array
    • Column
    • Comment Operators
    • Compare Operators
    • Contains
    • Create, Collect into Object
    • Date Time
    • Delete
    • Divide
    • Document Index
    • Encode / Decode
    • Entries
    • Env Variable Operators
    • Equals
    • Eval
    • File Operators
    • Filter Operator
    • Flatten
    • Group By
    • Has
    • Keys
    • Kind
    • Length
    • Line
    • Load
    • Min
    • Map
    • Max
    • Modulo
    • Multiply (Merge)
    • Omit
    • Parent
    • Path
    • Pick
    • Pipe
    • Pivot
    • Recursive Descent (Glob)
    • Reduce
    • Reverse
    • Select
    • Shuffle
    • Slice Array
    • Sort
    • Sort Keys
    • Split into Documents
    • String Operators
    • Style
    • Subtract
    • Tag
    • To Number
    • Traverse (Read)
    • Union
    • Unique
    • Variable Operators
    • With
  • Usage
    • Output format
    • Working with CSV, TSV
    • Working with JSON
    • Working with Properties
    • Working with XML
    • Working with LUA
    • Working with TOML
    • Working with Shell Output
    • Front Matter
    • Split into multiple files
    • GitHub Action
    • Tips, Tricks, Troubleshooting
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  • Flatten
  • Flatten with depth of one
  • Flatten empty array
  • Flatten array of objects

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  1. Operators

Flatten

This recursively flattens arrays.

Flatten

Recursively flattens all arrays

Given a sample.yml file of:

- 1
- - 2
- - - 3

then

yq 'flatten' sample.yml

will output

- 1
- 2
- 3

Flatten with depth of one

Given a sample.yml file of:

- 1
- - 2
- - - 3

then

yq 'flatten(1)' sample.yml

will output

- 1
- 2
- - 3

Flatten empty array

Given a sample.yml file of:

- []

then

yq 'flatten' sample.yml

will output

[]

Flatten array of objects

Given a sample.yml file of:

- foo: bar
- - foo: baz

then

yq 'flatten' sample.yml

will output

- foo: bar
- foo: baz
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