Dasel v3

Dasel (Data-Select) is a CLI tool for querying, modifying, and converting structured data files using a consistent query syntax across formats.

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CLI basics

# Read from stdin, specify input format
echo '{"name":"Tom"}' | dasel -i json 'name'
# => "Tom"

# Read from a file via stdin redirection
dasel -i yaml 'database.host' < config.yaml