Working around github strangeness

acceptance_tests/empty.sh

@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@ setUp() {
 EOL
 }
 
+# hack - for some reason in github actions, it
+# golang thinks yq has stdin pipeinto it (ModeNamedPipe is set, ModeCharDevice is not)
+# explicitly add an expression so it doesnt try to read 'test.yml' as one...
 testEmptyEval() {
-  X=$(./yq e test.yml -v)
+  X=$(./yq e "." test.yml)
   expected=$(cat test.yml)
   assertEquals 0 $?
   assertEquals "$expected" "$X"
@@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ testEmptyEval() {
 
 testEmptyEvalNoNewLine() {
   echo -n "#comment" >test.yml
-  X=$(./yq e test.yml)
+  X=$(./yq e "." test.yml)
   expected=$(cat test.yml)
   assertEquals 0 $?
   assertEquals "$expected" "$X"