I think there is something weird going on on your system. yq and jq should be different and distinct commands. I don’t know why when you execute yq -o=json .. you get an error from jq ! Maybe you set an alias or so?
Here is what I have for both commands, you can see yq is from https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/. Let me know if that helps, if not we can try to debug further. In terms of version I have yq version v4.45.4 and jq-1.8.0.
:583; /opt/homebrew/bin/yq -h
yq is a portable command-line data file processor (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/)
See https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/ for detailed documentation and examples.
Usage:
yq [flags]
yq [command]
Examples:
# yq tries to auto-detect the file format based off the extension, and defaults to YAML if it's unknown (or piping through STDIN)
# Use the '-p/--input-format' flag to specify a format type.
cat file.xml | yq -p xml
# read the "stuff" node from "myfile.yml"
yq '.stuff' < myfile.yml
# update myfile.yml in place
yq -i '.stuff = "foo"' myfile.yml
# print contents of sample.json as idiomatic YAML
yq -P -oy sample.json
Available Commands:
completion Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
eval (default) Apply the expression to each document in each yaml file in sequence
eval-all Loads _all_ yaml documents of _all_ yaml files and runs expression once
help Help about any command
Flags:
-C, --colors force print with colors
--csv-auto-parse parse CSV YAML/JSON values (default true)
--csv-separator char CSV Separator character (default ,)
-e, --exit-status set exit status if there are no matches or null or false is returned
--expression string forcibly set the expression argument. Useful when yq argument detection thinks your expression is a file.
--from-file string Load expression from specified file.
-f, --front-matter string (extract|process) first input as yaml front-matter. Extract will pull out the yaml content, process will run the expression against the yaml content, leaving the remaining data intact
--header-preprocess Slurp any header comments and separators before processing expression. (default true)
-h, --help help for yq
-I, --indent int sets indent level for output (default 2)
-i, --inplace update the file in place of first file given.
-p, --input-format string [auto|a|yaml|y|json|j|props|p|csv|c|tsv|t|xml|x|base64|uri|toml|lua|l] parse format for input. (default "auto")
--lua-globals output keys as top-level global variables
--lua-prefix string prefix (default "return ")
--lua-suffix string suffix (default ";\n")
--lua-unquoted output unquoted string keys (e.g. {foo="bar"})
-M, --no-colors force print with no colors
-N, --no-doc Don't print document separators (---)
-0, --nul-output Use NUL char to separate values. If unwrap scalar is also set, fail if unwrapped scalar contains NUL char.
-n, --null-input Don't read input, simply evaluate the expression given. Useful for creating docs from scratch.
-o, --output-format string [auto|a|yaml|y|json|j|props|p|csv|c|tsv|t|xml|x|base64|uri|toml|shell|s|lua|l] output format type. (default "auto")
-P, --prettyPrint pretty print, shorthand for '... style = ""'
--properties-array-brackets use [x] in array paths (e.g. for SpringBoot)
--properties-separator string separator to use between keys and values (default " = ")
-s, --split-exp string print each result (or doc) into a file named (exp). [exp] argument must return a string. You can use $index in the expression as the result counter. The necessary directories will be created.
--split-exp-file string Use a file to specify the split-exp expression.
--string-interpolation Toggles strings interpolation of \(exp) (default true)
--tsv-auto-parse parse TSV YAML/JSON values (default true)
-r, --unwrapScalar unwrap scalar, print the value with no quotes, colors or comments. Defaults to true for yaml (default true)
-v, --verbose verbose mode
-V, --version Print version information and quit
--xml-attribute-prefix string prefix for xml attributes (default "+@")
--xml-content-name string name for xml content (if no attribute name is present). (default "+content")
--xml-directive-name string name for xml directives (e.g. <!DOCTYPE thing cat>) (default "+directive")
--xml-keep-namespace enables keeping namespace after parsing attributes (default true)
--xml-proc-inst-prefix string prefix for xml processing instructions (e.g. <?xml version="1"?>) (default "+p_")
--xml-raw-token enables using RawToken method instead Token. Commonly disables namespace translations. See https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/xml#Decoder.RawToken for details. (default true)
--xml-skip-directives skip over directives (e.g. <!DOCTYPE thing cat>)
--xml-skip-proc-inst skip over process instructions (e.g. <?xml version="1"?>)
--xml-strict-mode enables strict parsing of XML. See https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/xml for more details.
Use "yq [command] --help" for more information about a command.`
And for jq:
baaden@neo-(08:37)-(/dev/disk3s5)-(1,3Ti)-
-(/Users/baaden)-
:584; jq -h
jq - commandline JSON processor [version 1.8.0]
Usage: jq [options] <jq filter> [file...]
jq [options] --args <jq filter> [strings...]
jq [options] --jsonargs <jq filter> [JSON_TEXTS...]
jq is a tool for processing JSON inputs, applying the given filter to
its JSON text inputs and producing the filter's results as JSON on
standard output.
The simplest filter is ., which copies jq's input to its output
unmodified except for formatting. For more advanced filters see
the jq(1) manpage ("man jq") and/or https://jqlang.org/.
Example:
$ echo '{"foo": 0}' | jq .
{
"foo": 0
}
Command options:
-n, --null-input use `null` as the single input value;
-R, --raw-input read each line as string instead of JSON;
-s, --slurp read all inputs into an array and use it as
the single input value;
-c, --compact-output compact instead of pretty-printed output;
-r, --raw-output output strings without escapes and quotes;
--raw-output0 implies -r and output NUL after each output;
-j, --join-output implies -r and output without newline after
each output;
-a, --ascii-output output strings by only ASCII characters
using escape sequences;
-S, --sort-keys sort keys of each object on output;
-C, --color-output colorize JSON output;
-M, --monochrome-output disable colored output;
--tab use tabs for indentation;
--indent n use n spaces for indentation (max 7 spaces);
--unbuffered flush output stream after each output;
--stream parse the input value in streaming fashion;
--stream-errors implies --stream and report parse error as
an array;
--seq parse input/output as application/json-seq;
-f, --from-file load the filter from a file;
-L, --library-path dir search modules from the directory;
--arg name value set $name to the string value;
--argjson name value set $name to the JSON value;
--slurpfile name file set $name to an array of JSON values read
from the file;
--rawfile name file set $name to string contents of file;
--args consume remaining arguments as positional
string values;
--jsonargs consume remaining arguments as positional
JSON values;
-e, --exit-status set exit status code based on the output;
-V, --version show the version;
--build-configuration show jq's build configuration;
-h, --help show the help;
-- terminates argument processing;
Named arguments are also available as $ARGS.named[], while
positional arguments are available as $ARGS.positional[].