yq/pkg/yqlib/doc/file-operators.md

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# File Operators
File operators are most often used with merge when needing to merge specific files together. Note that when doing this, you will need to use `eval-all` to ensure all yaml documents are loaded into memory before performing the merge (as opposed to `eval` which runs the expression once per document).
Note that the `fileIndex` operator has a short alias of `fi`.
## Merging files
Note the use of eval-all to ensure all documents are loaded into memory.
```bash
yq eval-all 'select(fi == 0) * select(filename == "file2.yaml")' file1.yaml file2.yaml
```
## Get filename
Given a sample.yml file of:
```yaml
a: cat
```
then
```bash
yq eval 'filename' sample.yml
```
will output
```yaml
sample.yml
```
## Get file index
Given a sample.yml file of:
```yaml
a: cat
```
then
```bash
yq eval 'fileIndex' sample.yml
```
will output
```yaml
0
```
## Get file indices of multiple documents
Given a sample.yml file of:
```yaml
a: cat
```
And another sample another.yml file of:
```yaml
a: cat
```
then
```bash
yq eval-all 'fileIndex' sample.yml another.yml
```
will output
```yaml
0
---
1
```
## Get file index alias
Given a sample.yml file of:
```yaml
a: cat
```
then
```bash
yq eval 'fi' sample.yml
```
will output
```yaml
0
```