# yq yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor The aim of the project is to be the [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) or sed of yaml files. ## Install On MacOS: ``` brew install yq ``` On Ubuntu and other Linux distros supporting `snap` packages: ``` snap install yq ``` On Ubuntu 16.04 or higher from Debian package: ``` sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rmescandon/yq sudo apt update sudo apt install yq -y ``` or, [Download latest binary](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/latest) or alternatively: ``` go get gopkg.in/mikefarah/yq.v2 ``` [View on GitHub](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq)