yq VS dasel

What I often use to just get the full key paths is yq (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq), piping into grep when necessary

  yq -o=props 

For more information about this command visit https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

I've been trying to install and config a plugin (papis.nvim) for a couple of days and am having issues with a function that uses io.popen to run yq to convert yaml files to json. I know my install of yq is fine- I can run yq -oj info.yaml from the command line with no issue and it produces the correct json output. I know the function can find the yq executable, but it returns nil. I've saved the error from the yq golang code: panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

- yq has no if-then-else https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/95 which is a poor design (or omission) in my opinion

After which, I use openapi-generator to make a yaml output.

https://gist.github.com/freshteapot/3637e8d2b5ecdf01b7d25246...

- yq version 3.4.1 (Worth noting, the example uses an out of date yq, so a few modifictaions might be needed)

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

For those pining for a similar yaml query tool for working through acres of config: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

jq is awesome and thanks to the new team for their recent efforts and energy, it massively appreciated.

For anyone looking for such a script, there's some CLIs that make it easy. One is `yq -o props` [1], another way is to use `yq -j` or `yj` [2] to convert to JSON and pipe it to `gron` [3].

[1] https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

[2] https://github.com/sclevine/yj

[3] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

wget https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/download/v2.1.2/dasel_linux_amd64 install -o root -g root -m 0755 dasel_linux_amd64 /usr/bin/dasel

https://github.com/TomWright/dasel handles JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

dasel - Comparable to jq / yq, but supports JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV with zero runtime dependencies.

Another tool in this space is Dasel[1], which can handle querying/modifying JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV files.

[1] https://github.com/TomWright/dasel

There also is dasel which combine jq, yq as well handling TOML, XML and CSV

dasel # most common human readable configs(json, yaml, xml...)

I have recently switched to Dasel (https://github.com/TomWright/dasel ) due to its ability to work not only with JSON but also with other formats.