Mgla96/yaml-searcher

command line utility for searching through yaml (like yq)

yaml-searcher

A command line utility to search through yaml for a specific value.

It reads yaml from stdin and outputs the value you are searching for.

Examples

Search in yaml for result of field hello.world

yaml-file.yaml

hello:
  world: "output"

redirect yaml file

./yaml-searcher hello.world < yaml-file.yaml

pipe in yaml file

cat yaml-file.yaml | ./yaml-searcher hello.world

Both will return output

Installation

1. Download yaml-searcher

   curl -L https://github.com/mgla96/yaml-searcher/releases/download/v0.1.5/yaml-searcher > yaml-searcher

2. Add execution permissions

   chmod +x yaml-searcher

3. Place in executable PATH or call directly

Notes / Gotchas

• zsh uses square brackets for globbing/pattern matching

  when passing square brackets in search argument for yaml-searcher, you must either escape them or quote argument

  yaml-file.yaml

  hello:
    - world: "output"
    - world: "output2"

  command

  ./yaml-searcher 'hello[0]' < yaml-file.yaml

  ./yaml-searcher hello\[0\] < yaml-file.yaml

  returns

  world: output