Keys with dots
+Niche
Keys with dots¶
When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.
@@ -384,6 +386,15 @@Any valid yaml key can be specified as part of a key lookup.
Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.
+Keys (and values) with leading dashes¶
+If a key or value has leading dashes, yq won't know that you are passing a value as opposed to a flag (and you will get a 'bad flag syntax' error).
+To fix that, you will need to tell it to stop processing flags by adding '--' after the last flag like so:
+yq n -t -- --key --value
+
+
+Will result in
+--key: --value
+
@@ -412,7 +423,6 @@
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