Reverse

Reverses the order of the items in an array

Given a sample.yml file of:

[1, 2, 3]

then

yq 'reverse' sample.yml

will output

[3, 2, 1]

Sort descending by string field

Use sort with reverse to sort in descending order.

Given a sample.yml file of:

[{a: banana}, {a: cat}, {a: apple}]

then

yq 'sort_by(.a) | reverse' sample.yml

will output

[{a: cat}, {a: banana}, {a: apple}]