yq/README.md
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# yq [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mikefarah/yq.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mikefarah/yq)
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 github.com/mikefarah/yq
```
## Run with Docker
Oneshot use:
```bash
docker run -v ${PWD}:/workdir mikefarah/yq yq [flags] <command> FILE...
```
Run commands interactively:
```bash
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](http://mikefarah.github.io/yq/)
Check out the [documentation](http://mikefarah.github.io/yq/) 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