go-yq

go-yq

jq-style golang equivalent of yq. Another yq tool that is written in golang could be used if one requires more features.

rationale

go-yq was created to prevent that pip has to be installed in order to install yq

installation

curl -L https://github.com/030/go-yq/releases/download/2.1.2/go-yq_2.1.2-0.deb -o go-yq.deb && \
sudo apt -y install ./go-yq.deb

usage

help

[user@localhost go-yq]$ ./go-yq -h
2018/11/13 12:07:39 Usage: go-yq <key e.g. .foo.bar> <filename e.g. input.yaml>
exit status 1

examples

[user@localhost go-yq]$ ./go-yq go run main.go .firefox_version ~/dev/ansible-firefox/defaults/main.yml

or

docker run -v /home/ben/dev/ansible-firefox:/ansible-firefox \
       -it utrecht/go-yq:2.1.0 .firefox_version \
       /ansible-firefox/defaults/main.yml

returns:

66.0.3