yq/pkg/yqlib/doc/File Operators.md

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).

```bash
yq eval-all 'select(fileIndex == 0) * select(filename == "file2.yaml")' file1.yaml file2.yaml
```
## Examples
### Get filename
Given a sample.yml file of:
```yaml
a: cat
```
then
```bash
yq eval 'filename' sample.yml
```
will output
```yaml
sample.yaml
```

### Get file index
Given a sample.yml file of:
```yaml
a: cat
```
then
```bash
yq eval 'fileIndex' sample.yml
```
will output
```yaml
0
```