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<h1>Write/Update</h1>
<pre><code>yq w <yaml_file> <path> <new value>
</code></pre>
<h3 id="to-stdout">To Stdout<a class="headerlink" href="#to-stdout" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: 2
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml b.c cat
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: cat
</code></pre>
<h3 id="from-stdin">From STDIN<a class="headerlink" href="#from-stdin" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<pre><code class="bash">cat sample.yaml | yq w - b.c blah
</code></pre>
<h3 id="adding-new-fields">Adding new fields<a class="headerlink" href="#adding-new-fields" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Any missing fields in the path will be created on the fly.</p>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: 2
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml b.d[+] "new thing"
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: cat
d:
- new thing
</code></pre>
<h3 id="splat">Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#splat" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">---
bob:
item1:
cats: bananas
item2:
cats: apples
thing:
cats: oranges
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml bob.*.cats meow
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">---
bob:
item1:
cats: meow
item2:
cats: meow
thing:
cats: meow
</code></pre>
<h3 id="prefix-splat">Prefix Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#prefix-splat" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">---
bob:
item1:
cats: bananas
item2:
cats: apples
thing:
cats: oranges
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml bob.item*.cats meow
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">---
bob:
item1:
cats: meow
item2:
cats: meow
thing:
cats: oranges
</code></pre>
<h3 id="array-splat">Array Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#array-splat" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">---
bob:
- cats: bananas
- cats: apples
- cats: oranges
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml bob[*].cats meow
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">---
bob:
- cats: meow
- cats: meow
- cats: meow
</code></pre>
<h3 id="appending-value-to-an-array-field">Appending value to an array field<a class="headerlink" href="#appending-value-to-an-array-field" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: 2
d:
- new thing
- foo thing
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml "b.d[+]" "bar thing"
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: cat
d:
- new thing
- foo thing
- bar thing
</code></pre>
<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
<h3 id="multiple-documents-update-a-single-document">Multiple Documents - update a single document<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-update-a-single-document" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
---
b:
c: 2
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w -d1 sample.yaml b.c 5
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
---
b:
c: 5
</code></pre>
<h3 id="multiple-documents-update-all-documents">Multiple Documents - update all documents<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-update-all-documents" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
---
b:
c: 2
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w -d'*' sample.yaml b.c 5
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
b:
c: 5
---
b:
c: 5
</code></pre>
<p>Note that '*' is in quotes to avoid being interpreted by your shell.</p>
<h3 id="updating-files-in-place">Updating files in-place<a class="headerlink" href="#updating-files-in-place" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: 2
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w -i sample.yaml b.c cat
</code></pre>
<p>will update the sample.yaml file so that the value of 'c' is cat.</p>
<h3 id="updating-multiple-values-with-a-script">Updating multiple values with a script<a class="headerlink" href="#updating-multiple-values-with-a-script" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: 2
e:
- name: Billy Bob
</code></pre>
<p>and a script update_instructions.yaml of:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b.c: 3
b.e[+].name: Howdy Partner
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq w -s update_instructions.yaml sample.yaml
</code></pre>
<p>will output:</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
c: 3
e:
- name: Howdy Partner
</code></pre>
<p>And, of course, you can pipe the instructions in using '-':</p>
<pre><code class="bash">cat update_instructions.yaml | yq w -s - sample.yaml
</code></pre>
<h3 id="values-starting-with-a-hyphen-or-dash">Values starting with a hyphen (or dash)<a class="headerlink" href="#values-starting-with-a-hyphen-or-dash" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>The flag terminator needs to be used to stop the app from attempting to parse the subsequent arguments as flags:</p>
<pre><code>yq w -- my.path -3
</code></pre>
<p>will output</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">my:
path: -3
</code></pre>
<h3 id="keys-with-dots">Keys with dots<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-with-dots" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.</p>
<pre><code class="yaml">b:
foo.bar: 7
</code></pre>
<pre><code class="bash">yaml r sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]'
</code></pre>
<pre><code class="bash">yaml w sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]' 9
</code></pre>
<p>Any valid yaml key can be specified as part of a key lookup.</p>
<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
<h3 id="keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes">Keys (and values) with leading dashes<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p>If a key or value has leading dashes, yq won't know that you are passing a value as opposed to a flag (and you will get a 'bad flag syntax' error).</p>
<p>To fix that, you will need to tell it to stop processing flags by adding '--' after the last flag like so:</p>
<pre><code class="bash">yq n -t -- --key --value
</code></pre>
<p>Will result in</p>
<p><code>`
--key: --value</code></p>
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