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Re:Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Suppor... by Novalty93 on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:40AM (#24942688)
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
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Re:Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Suppor... by hyperman1 on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:01PM (#24945071)
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.

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Re:Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Suppor... by onetom on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:52PM (#24944953)
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.
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