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Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML (github.com/tomwright)
45 points by Novalty93 on Oct 30, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



I've been working on a tool to query/update data structures from the commandline. It's comparable to jq/yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML. I'm not aware of anything that attempted to do this so I rolled my own. Let me know what you think


This seems very handy, thank you very much.

It would be great if it could support perfect roundtripping: Comments, ordering, whitespace,... are not touched. It would make fearless updating of config files a breeze.

This I understand would be a huge undertaking, requiring writing your own parsers.

Not that I want to be ungratefull. This looks a very usefull tool as is.


Only if it would support EDN (https://github.com/edn-format/edn) too... :) Although I was satisfied with Jet (https://github.com/borkdude/jet) so far.


Great work! I can totally see the usefulness of this. And your examples of `dasel` side-by-side with `jq` and `yq` are very much appreciated because you're making it easy to learn.


Really nice, I can see several use case where a simple bash script + Dasel would save me some higher level coding. I will try it soon! Thanks


yaml for configuration really should die a fiery death. any tool that helps work with it before that happens is very welcome.




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