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How It Works
Upgrading from V3
Commands
Evaluate
Evaluate All
Shell Completion
Operators
Add
Alternative (Default value)
Anchor and Alias Operators
Assign (Update)
Boolean Operators
Collect into Array
Comment Operators
Contains
Create, Collect into Object
Delete
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Encode / Decode
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Env Variable Operators
Equals
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Keys
Length
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Parent
Path
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Sort
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String Operators
Style
Subtract
Tag
Traverse (Read)
Union
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Variable Operators
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Usage
Output format
Working with Properties
Working with CSV, TSV
Working with JSON
Working with XML
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Tag
The tag operator can be used to get or set the tag of nodes (e.g.
!!str
,
!!int
,
!!bool
).
Get tag
Given a sample.yml file of:
1
a
:
cat
2
b
:
5
3
c
:
3.2
4
e
:
true
5
f
:
[]
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then
1
yq
eval
'.. | tag'
sample.yml
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will output
1
!!map
2
!!str
3
!!int
4
!!float
5
!!bool
6
!!seq
Copied!
Set custom tag
Given a sample.yml file of:
1
a
:
str
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then
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yq
eval
'.a tag = "!!mikefarah"'
sample.yml
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will output
1
a
:
!!mikefarah
str
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Find numbers and convert them to strings
Given a sample.yml file of:
1
a
:
cat
2
b
:
5
3
c
:
3.2
4
e
:
true
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then
1
yq
eval
'(.. | select(tag == "!!int")) tag= "!!str"'
sample.yml
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will output
1
a
:
cat
2
b
:
"5"
3
c
:
3.2
4
e
:
true
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Get tag
Set custom tag
Find numbers and convert them to strings