Added unwrap flag

cmd/commands_test.go

@@ -94,6 +94,21 @@ func TestReadCmd(t *testing.T) {
 	test.AssertResult(t, "2\n", result.Output)
 }
 
+func TestReadUnwrapCmd(t *testing.T) {
+
+	content := `b: 'frog' # my favourite`
+	filename := test.WriteTempYamlFile(content)
+	defer test.RemoveTempYamlFile(filename)
+
+	cmd := getRootCommand()
+	result := test.RunCmd(cmd, fmt.Sprintf("read %s b --unwrapScalar=false", filename))
+
+	if result.Error != nil {
+		t.Error(result.Error)
+	}
+	test.AssertResult(t, "'frog' # my favourite\n", result.Output)
+}
+
 func TestCompareSameCmd(t *testing.T) {
 	cmd := getRootCommand()
 	result := test.RunCmd(cmd, "compare ../examples/data1.yaml ../examples/data1.yaml")

cmd/constant.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 var customTag = ""
 var printMode = "v"
 var printLength = false
+var unwrapScalar = true
 var collectIntoArray = false
 var writeInplace = false
 var writeScript = ""

cmd/read.go

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ yq r -- things.yaml '--key-starting-with-dashes.blah'
 	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&defaultValue, "defaultValue", "D", "", "default value printed when there are no results")
 	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&printLength, "length", "l", false, "print length of results")
 	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&collectIntoArray, "collect", "c", false, "collect results into array")
+	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&unwrapScalar, "unwrapScalar", "", true, "unwrap scalar, print the value with no quotes, colors or comments")
 	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&explodeAnchors, "explodeAnchors", "X", false, "explode anchors")
 	return cmdRead
 }

cmd/utils.go

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func transformNode(node *yaml.Node) *yaml.Node {
 
 func printNode(node *yaml.Node, writer io.Writer) error {
 	var encoder yqlib.Encoder
-	if node.Kind == yaml.ScalarNode {
+	if node.Kind == yaml.ScalarNode && unwrapScalar {
 		return writeString(writer, node.Value+"\n")
 	}
 	if outputToJSON {