yq

a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor

The aim of the project is to be the 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 or alternatively:

go get github.com/mikefarah/yq

Run with Docker

Oneshot use:

docker run -v ${PWD}:/workdir mikefarah/yq yq [flags] <command> FILE...

Run commands interactively:

docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/workdir mikefarah/yq sh

Features

• Written in portable go, so you can download a lovely dependency free binary
• Deep read a yaml file with a given path
• Update a yaml file given a path
• Update a yaml file given a script file
• Update creates any missing entries in the path on the fly
• Create a yaml file given a deep path and value
• Create a yaml file given a script file
• Convert from json to yaml
• Convert from yaml to json
• Pipe data in by using '-'
• Merge multiple yaml files where each additional file sets values for missing or null value keys.
• Merge multiple yaml files with overwrite to support overriding previous values.

Usage

Check out the documentation for more detailed and advanced usage.

Usage:
  yq [flags]
  yq [command]

Available Commands:
  delete      yq d [--inplace/-i] sample.yaml a.b.c
  help        Help about any command
  merge       yq m [--inplace/-i] [--overwrite/-x] sample.yaml sample2.yaml
  new         yq n [--script/-s script_file] a.b.c newValueForC
  read        yq r sample.yaml a.b.c
  write       yq w [--inplace/-i] [--script/-s script_file] sample.yaml a.b.c newValueForC

Flags:
  -h, --help      help for yq
  -j, --tojson    output as json
  -t, --trim      trim yaml output (default true)
  -v, --verbose   verbose mode
  -V, --version   Print version information and quit

Use "yq [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Contribute

1. make [local] vendor
2. add unit tests
3. apply changes
4. make [local] build
5. If required, update the user documentation
   • Update README.md and/or documentation under the mkdocs folder
   • make [local] build-docs
   • browse to docs/index.html and check your changes
6. profit