18.36 YAML Processing

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Use Mike Farah’s yq package, which provides the yq to convert between YAML, JSON, and XML. The source code is available from command from https://github.com/mikefarah/yq with the documentation at https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/.

Use yq

yq e '.dependencies.files' MLHUB.yaml

Turn that into a list of files on one line:

yq e '.dependencies.files' MLHUB.yaml | tr -d "-" | tr -d "\n"


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