0.1.3 • Published 7 years ago
@lafferty-lounge/json v0.1.3
@lafferty-lounge/json
The json-ll utility lets you easily inspect, merge, modify, and export JSON and yaml
Installation
npm install -g @lafferty-lounge/jsonUsage
json-ll [object path] (--options, ...)Examples
Read from stdin
echo '{"foo": ["bar"]}' | json-ll foo # -> ["bar"]
echo '{"foo": ["bar"]}' | json-ll foo[0] # -> barRead from inline
json-ll foo -f '{"foo": ["bar"]}' # -> ["bar"]
json-ll foo[0] -f '{"foo": ["bar"]}' # -> barRead from file
foo.yaml
foo:
- barjson-ll foo -f foo.yaml # -> ["bar"]
json-ll foo[0] -f foo.yaml # -> barMerging values
json-ll -f '{"foo": {"bar": "baz"}}' --fs foo.bar -t '{"bar": "qux"}' --ts bar # -> '{"foo": {"bar": "qux"}}'Flags
| Arguments | Shorthand | Input | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| --to | -t | - , /filepath, '{ "inline" : "json" }' | - | The source of 'to' JSON/yaml when merging. Read from stdin (-), a file (/filepath), or parse the raw --to argument ('{}'). |
| --from | -f | -, /filepath, '{ "inline" : "json" }' | - | The source of 'from' JSON/yaml when merging. Read from stdin (-), a file (/filepath), or parse the raw --from argument ('{}') |
| --to-selector | --ts | object.path.0.syntax | The object/property path to set in the 'to' JSON | |
| --from-selector | --fs | object.path0.syntax | The object/property path to take from the 'from' JSON | |
| --value | -v | -, '{ "inline" : "json" }' | The value to use in place of the 'from' JSON content. | |
| --selector | -s | object.path.0.syntax | The object path to use when no merging is taking place. | |
| --output-file | --of | /filepath | The file to write the output of the command to if specified. Content is printed to stdout by default. | |
| --keys | -k | false | List only the keys for an object path | |
| --newline | -n | false | When set the newline that normally appears at the end of the output is ignored. (Don't write newline) | |
| --spaces | -1,0,1,2,... | 3 | When outputting in the JSON format the --spaces flag tells how many spaces to use for indentation. -1 for no indentation. | |
| --output | -o | raw, pretty, json, yaml | pretty | What format to output the data in |
Quirks
- You can't escape
.yet so you can't use keys with literal dots.