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Allow merge commands to specify overwrite and append simultaneously
#314 Fix the big int changing into float
2025-01-18 04:53:17 -08:00 · 2020-01-13 10:21:28 +11:00 · 2020-01-13 10:17:29 +11:00 · 2020-01-13 10:17:08 +11:00 · 2020-01-13 10:16:53 +11:00
117 changed files with 9632 additions and 3550 deletions
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ _cgo_export.*

 _testmain.go
 coverage.out
-coverage.html
 *.exe
 *.test
 *.prof
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,21 +1,27 @@
 # yq

-[![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.com/mikefarah/yq.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/mikefarah/yq/)  ![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/mikefarah/yq.svg) ![Github Releases (by Release)](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/mikefarah/yq/total.svg) ![Go Report](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/mikefarah/yq)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mikefarah/yq.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mikefarah/yq)  ![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/mikefarah/yq.svg) ![Github Releases (by Release)](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/mikefarah/yq/total.svg) ![Go Report](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/mikefarah/yq)


 a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor

 The aim of the project is to be the [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) or sed of yaml files.

-## New version!
-V3 is officially out - if you've been using v2 and want/need to upgrade, checkout the [upgrade guide](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/upgrading-from-v2).
+
+## Major upgrade - V3 beta is out! 
+
+This addresses a number of features requests and issues that have been raised :)
+
+Currently only available only available as a [binary release here](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/tag/3.0.0-beta) or via docker mikefarah/yq:3.0.0-beta!
+
+It does have a few breaking changes listed on the [release page](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/tag/3.0.0-beta)
+
+Looking forward to feedback - once this is out of beta it will be added to the remaining package managers, and be the default version downloaded (and merged into master).
+
+V2 will no longer have any new features added, and will be moved to a branch (v2). It will have limited maintenance for bugs for a few months.

 ## Install

-### Download the latest binary
-
-[Here](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/latest)
-
 ### On MacOS:
 ```
 brew install yq
@@ -49,9 +55,9 @@ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rmescandon/yq
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install yq -y
 ```
-### Go Get:
+### or, [Download latest binary](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/latest) or alternatively:
 ```
-GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3
+GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2
 ```

 ## Run with Docker
@@ -78,46 +84,46 @@ yq() {

 ## Features
 - Written in portable go, so you can download a lovely dependency free binary
- [Deep read a yaml file with a given path expression](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/read#basic)
- [List matching paths of a given path expression](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/read#path-only)
- Update a yaml file given a [path expression](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/write-update#basic) or [script file](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/write-update#basic)
+- Deep read a yaml file with a given path
+- Update a yaml file given a path
+- Update a yaml file given a script file
 - Update creates any missing entries in the path on the fly
- Deeply compare yaml files
- Keeps yaml formatting and comments when updating
- [Validate a yaml file](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/validate)
- Create a yaml file given a [deep path and value](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/create#creating-a-simple-yaml-file) or a [script file](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/create#creating-using-a-create-script)
- [Prefix a path to a yaml file](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/prefix)
- [Convert to/from json to yaml](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/usage/convert)
- [Pipe data in by using '-'](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/read#from-stdin)
- [Merge](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/merge) multiple yaml files with various options for [overriding](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/merge#overwrite-values) and [appending](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/merge#append-values-with-arrays)
- Supports multiple documents in a single yaml file for [reading](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/read#multiple-documents), [writing](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/write-update#multiple-documents) and [merging](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/commands/merge#multiple-documents)
+- Create a yaml file given a deep path and value
+- Create a yaml file given a script file
+- Prefix a path to a yaml file
+- Convert from json to yaml
+- Convert from yaml to json
+- Pipe data in by using '-'
+- Merge multiple yaml files where each additional file sets values for missing or null value keys.
+- Merge multiple yaml files and override previous values.
+- Merge multiple yaml files and append array values.
+- Supports multiple documents in a single yaml file

-## [Usage](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/)
+## [Usage](http://mikefarah.github.io/yq/)

-Check out the [documentation](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/) for more detailed and advanced usage.
+Check out the [documentation](http://mikefarah.github.io/yq/) for more detailed and advanced usage.

 ```
+yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor. It aims to be the jq or sed of yaml files.
+
 Usage:
  yq [flags]
  yq [command]

 Available Commands:
-  compare     yq x [--prettyPrint/-P] dataA.yaml dataB.yaml 'b.e(name==fr*).value'
-  delete      yq d [--inplace/-i] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml 'b.e(name==fred)'
+  delete      yq d [--inplace/-i] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml a.b.c
  help        Help about any command
  merge       yq m [--inplace/-i] [--doc/-d index] [--overwrite/-x] [--append/-a] sample.yaml sample2.yaml
  new         yq n [--script/-s script_file] a.b.c newValue
  prefix      yq p [--inplace/-i] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml a.b.c
-  read        yq r [--printMode/-p pv] sample.yaml 'b.e(name==fr*).value'
-  validate    yq v sample.yaml
-  write       yq w [--inplace/-i] [--script/-s script_file] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml 'b.e(name==fr*).value' newValue
+  read        yq r [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml a.b.c
+  write       yq w [--inplace/-i] [--script/-s script_file] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml a.b.c newValue

 Flags:
-  -h, --help          help for yq
-  -P, --prettyPrint   pretty print
-  -j, --tojson        output as json
-  -v, --verbose       verbose mode
-  -V, --version       Print version information and quit
+  -h, --help      help for yq
+  -t, --trim      trim yaml output (default true)
+  -v, --verbose   verbose mode
+  -V, --version   Print version information and quit

 Use "yq [command] --help" for more information about a command.
 ```
@@ -131,4 +137,8 @@ Use "yq [command] --help" for more information about a command.
 3. add unit tests
 4. apply changes to go.mod
 5. `make [local] build`
+6. If required, update the user documentation
+    - Update README.md and/or documentation under the mkdocs folder
+    - `make [local] build-docs`
+    - browse to docs/index.html and check your changes
 7. profit
--- a/74
+++ b/74
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-
-Major release! Upgraded underlying yaml parser, re-written majority of yq. This has brought on a number of features that have been in demand for a while (see below).
-
-This is in beta and needs some community feedback and testing :)
-
-# New Features
-  - Keeps yaml comments and formatting, can specify yaml tags when updating. https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/19, https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/169, https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/107, https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/171, https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/245, https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/303,https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/308,https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/314
-  - Handles anchors!  https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/310, https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/178
-  - Can print out matching paths and values when splatting https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/20
-  - JSON output works for all commands! Yaml files with multiple documents are printed out as one JSON document per line. 
-  - Deep splat (**) to match arbitrary paths
-
-
-# Breaking changes
-
-## Update scripts file format has changed to be more powerful. 
-Comments can be added, and delete commands have been introduced.
-
-Before:
-```yaml
-b.e[+].name: Mike Farah
-```
-
-After:
-```yaml
- command: update 
-  path: b.e[+].thing
-  value:
-    #great 
-    things: frog # wow!
- command: delete
-  path: b.d
-```
-
-https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/305
-
-## Reading and splatting, matching results are printed once per line.
-  e.g:
-
-```json
-parent:
-  childA: 
-    no: matches here
-  childB:
-    there: matches
-    hi: no match
-    there2: also matches
-```
-
-```bash
-yq r sample.yaml 'parent.*.there*'
-```
-
-old
-```yaml
- null
- - matches
-  - also matches
-```
-
-new
-```yaml
-matches
-also matches
-```
-
-and you can print the matching paths:
-
-yq r --printMode pv sample.yaml 'parent.*.there*'
-
-```yaml
-parent.childB.there: matches
-parent.childB.there2: also matches
-```
--- a/cmd/compare.go
+++ b/cmd/compare.go
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"bufio"
-	"bytes"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/kylelemons/godebug/diff"
-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/pkg/yqlib"
-	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-func createCompareCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdCompare = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "compare [yaml_file_a] [yaml_file_b]",
-		Aliases: []string{"x"},
-		Short:   "yq x [--prettyPrint/-P] dataA.yaml dataB.yaml 'b.e(name==fr*).value'",
-		Example: `
-yq x - data2.yml # reads from stdin
-yq x -pp dataA.yaml dataB.yaml '**' # compare paths
-yq x -d1 dataA.yaml dataB.yaml 'a.b.c'
-`,
-		Long: "Deeply compares two yaml files, prints the difference. Use with prettyPrint flag to ignore formatting differences.",
-		RunE: compareDocuments,
-	}
-	cmdCompare.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&docIndex, "doc", "d", "0", "process document index number (0 based, * for all documents)")
-	cmdCompare.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&printMode, "printMode", "p", "v", "print mode (v (values, default), p (paths), pv (path and value pairs)")
-	cmdCompare.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&defaultValue, "defaultValue", "D", "", "default value printed when there are no results")
-	return cmdCompare
-}
-
-func compareDocuments(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	var path = ""
-
-	if len(args) < 2 {
-		return errors.New("Must provide at 2 yaml files")
-	} else if len(args) > 2 {
-		path = args[2]
-	}
-
-	var updateAll, docIndexInt, errorParsingDocIndex = parseDocumentIndex()
-	if errorParsingDocIndex != nil {
-		return errorParsingDocIndex
-	}
-
-	var matchingNodesA []*yqlib.NodeContext
-	var matchingNodesB []*yqlib.NodeContext
-	var errorDoingThings error
-
-	matchingNodesA, errorDoingThings = readYamlFile(args[0], path, updateAll, docIndexInt)
-
-	if errorDoingThings != nil {
-		return errorDoingThings
-	}
-
-	matchingNodesB, errorDoingThings = readYamlFile(args[1], path, updateAll, docIndexInt)
-	if errorDoingThings != nil {
-		return errorDoingThings
-	}
-
-	var dataBufferA bytes.Buffer
-	var dataBufferB bytes.Buffer
-	errorDoingThings = printResults(matchingNodesA, bufio.NewWriter(&dataBufferA))
-	if errorDoingThings != nil {
-		return errorDoingThings
-	}
-	errorDoingThings = printResults(matchingNodesB, bufio.NewWriter(&dataBufferB))
-	if errorDoingThings != nil {
-		return errorDoingThings
-	}
-
-	cmd.Print(diff.Diff(strings.TrimSuffix(dataBufferA.String(), "\n"), strings.TrimSuffix(dataBufferB.String(), "\n")))
-	cmd.Print("\n")
-	return nil
-}
--- a/cmd/constant.go
+++ b/cmd/constant.go
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/pkg/yqlib"
-	logging "gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1"
-)
-
-var customTag = ""
-var printMode = "v"
-var writeInplace = false
-var writeScript = ""
-var outputToJSON = false
-var prettyPrint = false
-var explodeAnchors = false
-var defaultValue = ""
-var indent = 2
-var overwriteFlag = false
-var autoCreateFlag = true
-var appendFlag = false
-var verbose = false
-var version = false
-var docIndex = "0"
-var log = logging.MustGetLogger("yq")
-var lib = yqlib.NewYqLib()
-var valueParser = yqlib.NewValueParser()
--- a/cmd/delete.go
+++ b/cmd/delete.go
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/pkg/yqlib"
-	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-func createDeleteCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdDelete = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "delete [yaml_file] [path_expression]",
-		Aliases: []string{"d"},
-		Short:   "yq d [--inplace/-i] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml 'b.e(name==fred)'",
-		Example: `
-yq delete things.yaml 'a.b.c'
-yq delete things.yaml 'a.*.c'
-yq delete things.yaml 'a.(child.subchild==co*).c'
-yq delete things.yaml 'a.**'
-yq delete --inplace things.yaml 'a.b.c'
-yq delete --inplace -- things.yaml '--key-starting-with-dash' # need to use '--' to stop processing arguments as flags
-yq d -i things.yaml 'a.b.c'
-	`,
-		Long: `Deletes the nodes matching the given path expression from the YAML file.
-Outputs to STDOUT unless the inplace flag is used, in which case the file is updated instead.
-`,
-		RunE: deleteProperty,
-	}
-	cmdDelete.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&writeInplace, "inplace", "i", false, "update the yaml file inplace")
-	cmdDelete.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&docIndex, "doc", "d", "0", "process document index number (0 based, * for all documents)")
-	return cmdDelete
-}
-
-func deleteProperty(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	if len(args) < 2 {
-		return errors.New("Must provide <filename> <path_to_delete>")
-	}
-	var updateCommands []yqlib.UpdateCommand = make([]yqlib.UpdateCommand, 1)
-	updateCommands[0] = yqlib.UpdateCommand{Command: "delete", Path: args[1]}
-
-	return updateDoc(args[0], updateCommands, cmd.OutOrStdout())
-}
--- a/cmd/merge.go
+++ b/cmd/merge.go
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/pkg/yqlib"
-	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-func createMergeCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdMerge = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "merge [initial_yaml_file] [additional_yaml_file]...",
-		Aliases: []string{"m"},
-		Short:   "yq m [--inplace/-i] [--doc/-d index] [--overwrite/-x] [--append/-a] sample.yaml sample2.yaml",
-		Example: `
-yq merge things.yaml other.yaml
-yq merge --inplace things.yaml other.yaml
-yq m -i things.yaml other.yaml
-yq m --overwrite things.yaml other.yaml
-yq m -i -x things.yaml other.yaml
-yq m -i -a things.yaml other.yaml
-yq m -i --autocreate=false things.yaml other.yaml
-      `,
-		Long: `Updates the yaml file by adding/updating the path(s) and value(s) from additional yaml file(s).
-Outputs to STDOUT unless the inplace flag is used, in which case the file is updated instead.
-
-If overwrite flag is set then existing values will be overwritten using the values from each additional yaml file.
-If append flag is set then existing arrays will be merged with the arrays from each additional yaml file.
-`,
-		RunE: mergeProperties,
-	}
-	cmdMerge.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&writeInplace, "inplace", "i", false, "update the yaml file inplace")
-	cmdMerge.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&overwriteFlag, "overwrite", "x", false, "update the yaml file by overwriting existing values")
-	cmdMerge.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&autoCreateFlag, "autocreate", "c", true, "automatically create any missing entries")
-	cmdMerge.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&appendFlag, "append", "a", false, "update the yaml file by appending array values")
-	cmdMerge.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&docIndex, "doc", "d", "0", "process document index number (0 based, * for all documents)")
-	return cmdMerge
-}
-
-func mergeProperties(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	var updateCommands []yqlib.UpdateCommand = make([]yqlib.UpdateCommand, 0)
-
-	if len(args) < 1 {
-		return errors.New("Must provide at least 1 yaml file")
-	}
-
-	if len(args) > 1 {
-		// first generate update commands from the file
-		var filesToMerge = args[1:]
-
-		for _, fileToMerge := range filesToMerge {
-			matchingNodes, errorProcessingFile := readYamlFile(fileToMerge, "**", false, 0)
-			if errorProcessingFile != nil {
-				return errorProcessingFile
-			}
-			for _, matchingNode := range matchingNodes {
-				mergePath := lib.MergePathStackToString(matchingNode.PathStack, appendFlag)
-				updateCommands = append(updateCommands, yqlib.UpdateCommand{Command: "update", Path: mergePath, Value: matchingNode.Node, Overwrite: overwriteFlag})
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	return updateDoc(args[0], updateCommands, cmd.OutOrStdout())
-}
--- a/cmd/new.go
+++ b/cmd/new.go
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
-)
-
-func createNewCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdNew = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "new [path] [value]",
-		Aliases: []string{"n"},
-		Short:   "yq n [--script/-s script_file] a.b.c newValue",
-		Example: `
-yq new 'a.b.c' cat
-yq n 'a.b.c' --tag '!!str' true # force 'true' to be interpreted as a string instead of bool
-yq n 'a.b[+]' cat
-yq n -- '--key-starting-with-dash' cat # need to use '--' to stop processing arguments as flags
-yq n --script create_script.yaml
-      `,
-		Long: `Creates a new yaml w.r.t the given path and value.
-Outputs to STDOUT
-
-Create Scripts:
-Note that you can give a create script to perform more sophisticated yaml. This follows the same format as the update script.
-`,
-		RunE: newProperty,
-	}
-	cmdNew.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&writeScript, "script", "s", "", "yaml script for creating yaml")
-	cmdNew.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&customTag, "tag", "t", "", "set yaml tag (e.g. !!int)")
-	return cmdNew
-}
-
-func newProperty(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	var updateCommands, updateCommandsError = readUpdateCommands(args, 2, "Must provide <path_to_update> <value>")
-	if updateCommandsError != nil {
-		return updateCommandsError
-	}
-	newNode := lib.New(updateCommands[0].Path)
-
-	for _, updateCommand := range updateCommands {
-
-		errorUpdating := lib.Update(&newNode, updateCommand, true)
-
-		if errorUpdating != nil {
-			return errorUpdating
-		}
-	}
-
-	var encoder = yaml.NewEncoder(cmd.OutOrStdout())
-	encoder.SetIndent(2)
-	errorEncoding := encoder.Encode(&newNode)
-	encoder.Close()
-	return errorEncoding
-}
--- a/cmd/prefix.go
+++ b/cmd/prefix.go
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/pkg/yqlib"
-	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
-)
-
-func createPrefixCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdPrefix = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "prefix [yaml_file] [path]",
-		Aliases: []string{"p"},
-		Short:   "yq p [--inplace/-i] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml a.b.c",
-		Example: `
-yq prefix things.yaml 'a.b.c'
-yq prefix --inplace things.yaml 'a.b.c'
-yq prefix --inplace -- things.yaml '--key-starting-with-dash' # need to use '--' to stop processing arguments as flags
-yq p -i things.yaml 'a.b.c'
-yq p --doc 2 things.yaml 'a.b.d'
-yq p -d2 things.yaml 'a.b.d'
-      `,
-		Long: `Prefixes w.r.t to the yaml file at the given path.
-Outputs to STDOUT unless the inplace flag is used, in which case the file is updated instead.
-`,
-		RunE: prefixProperty,
-	}
-	cmdPrefix.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&writeInplace, "inplace", "i", false, "update the yaml file inplace")
-	cmdPrefix.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&docIndex, "doc", "d", "0", "process document index number (0 based, * for all documents)")
-	return cmdPrefix
-}
-
-func prefixProperty(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-
-	if len(args) < 2 {
-		return errors.New("Must provide <filename> <prefixed_path>")
-	}
-	updateCommand := yqlib.UpdateCommand{Command: "update", Path: args[1]}
-	log.Debugf("args %v", args)
-
-	var updateAll, docIndexInt, errorParsingDocIndex = parseDocumentIndex()
-	if errorParsingDocIndex != nil {
-		return errorParsingDocIndex
-	}
-
-	var updateData = func(dataBucket *yaml.Node, currentIndex int) error {
-		return prefixDocument(updateAll, docIndexInt, currentIndex, dataBucket, updateCommand)
-	}
-	return readAndUpdate(cmd.OutOrStdout(), args[0], updateData)
-}
--- a/cmd/read.go
+++ b/cmd/read.go
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-func createReadCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdRead = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "read [yaml_file] [path_expression]",
-		Aliases: []string{"r"},
-		Short:   "yq r [--printMode/-p pv] sample.yaml 'b.e(name==fr*).value'",
-		Example: `
-yq read things.yaml 'a.b.c'
-yq r - 'a.b.c' # reads from stdin
-yq r things.yaml 'a.*.c'
-yq r things.yaml 'a.**.c' # deep splat
-yq r things.yaml 'a.(child.subchild==co*).c'
-yq r -d1 things.yaml 'a.array[0].blah'
-yq r things.yaml 'a.array[*].blah'
-yq r -- things.yaml '--key-starting-with-dashes.blah'
-      `,
-		Long: "Outputs the value of the given path in the yaml file to STDOUT",
-		RunE: readProperty,
-	}
-	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&docIndex, "doc", "d", "0", "process document index number (0 based, * for all documents)")
-	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&printMode, "printMode", "p", "v", "print mode (v (values, default), p (paths), pv (path and value pairs)")
-	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&defaultValue, "defaultValue", "D", "", "default value printed when there are no results")
-	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&explodeAnchors, "explodeAnchors", "X", false, "explode anchors")
-	return cmdRead
-}
-
-func readProperty(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	var path = ""
-
-	if len(args) < 1 {
-		return errors.New("Must provide filename")
-	} else if len(args) > 1 {
-		path = args[1]
-	}
-
-	var updateAll, docIndexInt, errorParsingDocIndex = parseDocumentIndex()
-	if errorParsingDocIndex != nil {
-		return errorParsingDocIndex
-	}
-
-	matchingNodes, errorReadingStream := readYamlFile(args[0], path, updateAll, docIndexInt)
-
-	if errorReadingStream != nil {
-		return errorReadingStream
-	}
-
-	return printResults(matchingNodes, cmd.OutOrStdout())
-}
--- a/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root.go
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"os"
-
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	logging "gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1"
-)
-
-func New() *cobra.Command {
-	var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "yq",
-		Short: "yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor.",
-		Long:  `yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor. It aims to be the jq or sed of yaml files.`,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			if version {
-				cmd.Print(GetVersionDisplay())
-				return nil
-			}
-			cmd.Println(cmd.UsageString())
-
-			return nil
-		},
-		PersistentPreRun: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
-			var format = logging.MustStringFormatter(
-				`%{color}%{time:15:04:05} %{shortfunc} [%{level:.4s}]%{color:reset} %{message}`,
-			)
-			var backend = logging.AddModuleLevel(
-				logging.NewBackendFormatter(logging.NewLogBackend(os.Stderr, "", 0), format))
-
-			if verbose {
-				backend.SetLevel(logging.DEBUG, "")
-			} else {
-				backend.SetLevel(logging.ERROR, "")
-			}
-
-			logging.SetBackend(backend)
-		},
-	}
-
-	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&verbose, "verbose", "v", false, "verbose mode")
-	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&outputToJSON, "tojson", "j", false, "output as json. By default it prints a json document in one line, use the prettyPrint flag to print a formatted doc.")
-	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&prettyPrint, "prettyPrint", "P", false, "pretty print")
-	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().IntVarP(&indent, "indent", "I", 2, "sets indent level for output")
-	rootCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&version, "version", "V", false, "Print version information and quit")
-
-	rootCmd.AddCommand(
-		createReadCmd(),
-		createCompareCmd(),
-		createValidateCmd(),
-		createWriteCmd(),
-		createPrefixCmd(),
-		createDeleteCmd(),
-		createNewCmd(),
-		createMergeCmd(),
-	)
-	rootCmd.SetOutput(os.Stdout)
-
-	return rootCmd
-}
--- a/cmd/utils.go
+++ b/cmd/utils.go
@@ -1,452 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"bufio"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"os"
-	"strconv"
-
-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/pkg/yqlib"
-	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
-)
-
-func readYamlFile(filename string, path string, updateAll bool, docIndexInt int) ([]*yqlib.NodeContext, error) {
-	var matchingNodes []*yqlib.NodeContext
-
-	var currentIndex = 0
-	var errorReadingStream = readStream(filename, func(decoder *yaml.Decoder) error {
-		for {
-			var dataBucket yaml.Node
-			errorReading := decoder.Decode(&dataBucket)
-
-			if errorReading == io.EOF {
-				return handleEOF(updateAll, docIndexInt, currentIndex)
-			} else if errorReading != nil {
-				return errorReading
-			}
-
-			var errorParsing error
-			matchingNodes, errorParsing = appendDocument(matchingNodes, dataBucket, path, updateAll, docIndexInt, currentIndex)
-			if errorParsing != nil {
-				return errorParsing
-			}
-			if !updateAll && currentIndex == docIndexInt {
-				log.Debug("all done")
-				return nil
-			}
-			currentIndex = currentIndex + 1
-		}
-	})
-	return matchingNodes, errorReadingStream
-}
-
-func handleEOF(updateAll bool, docIndexInt int, currentIndex int) error {
-	log.Debugf("done %v / %v", currentIndex, docIndexInt)
-	if !updateAll && currentIndex <= docIndexInt && docIndexInt != 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Could not process document index %v as there are only %v document(s)", docIndex, currentIndex)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func appendDocument(originalMatchingNodes []*yqlib.NodeContext, dataBucket yaml.Node, path string, updateAll bool, docIndexInt int, currentIndex int) ([]*yqlib.NodeContext, error) {
-	log.Debugf("processing document %v - requested index %v", currentIndex, docIndexInt)
-	yqlib.DebugNode(&dataBucket)
-	if !updateAll && currentIndex != docIndexInt {
-		return originalMatchingNodes, nil
-	}
-	log.Debugf("reading %v in document %v", path, currentIndex)
-	matchingNodes, errorParsing := lib.Get(&dataBucket, path)
-	if errorParsing != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Wrapf(errorParsing, "Error reading path in document index %v", currentIndex)
-	}
-	return append(originalMatchingNodes, matchingNodes...), nil
-}
-
-func printValue(node *yaml.Node, writer io.Writer) error {
-	if node.Kind == yaml.ScalarNode {
-		_, errorWriting := writer.Write([]byte(node.Value))
-		return errorWriting
-	}
-	return printNode(node, writer)
-}
-
-func printNode(node *yaml.Node, writer io.Writer) error {
-	var encoder yqlib.Encoder
-	if outputToJSON {
-		encoder = yqlib.NewJsonEncoder(writer, prettyPrint, indent)
-	} else {
-		encoder = yqlib.NewYamlEncoder(writer, indent)
-	}
-	return encoder.Encode(node)
-}
-
-func setStyle(matchingNodes []*yqlib.NodeContext, style yaml.Style) {
-	for _, nodeContext := range matchingNodes {
-		updateStyleOfNode(nodeContext.Node, style)
-	}
-}
-
-func updateStyleOfNode(node *yaml.Node, style yaml.Style) {
-	node.Style = style
-
-	for _, child := range node.Content {
-		updateStyleOfNode(child, style)
-	}
-}
-
-func writeString(writer io.Writer, txt string) error {
-	_, errorWriting := writer.Write([]byte(txt))
-	return errorWriting
-}
-
-func explode(matchingNodes []*yqlib.NodeContext) error {
-
-	for _, nodeContext := range matchingNodes {
-		var targetNode = yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.MappingNode}
-		explodedNodes, errorRetrieving := lib.Get(nodeContext.Node, "**")
-		if errorRetrieving != nil {
-			return errorRetrieving
-		}
-		for _, matchingNode := range explodedNodes {
-			mergePath := lib.MergePathStackToString(matchingNode.PathStack, appendFlag)
-			updateCommand := yqlib.UpdateCommand{Command: "update", Path: mergePath, Value: matchingNode.Node, Overwrite: overwriteFlag}
-			errorUpdating := lib.Update(&targetNode, updateCommand, true)
-			if errorUpdating != nil {
-				return errorUpdating
-			}
-		}
-		nodeContext.Node = &targetNode
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func printResults(matchingNodes []*yqlib.NodeContext, writer io.Writer) error {
-	if prettyPrint {
-		setStyle(matchingNodes, 0)
-	}
-
-	//always explode anchors when printing json
-	if explodeAnchors || outputToJSON {
-		errorExploding := explode(matchingNodes)
-		if errorExploding != nil {
-			return errorExploding
-		}
-	}
-
-	bufferedWriter := bufio.NewWriter(writer)
-	defer safelyFlush(bufferedWriter)
-
-	if len(matchingNodes) == 0 {
-		log.Debug("no matching results, nothing to print")
-		if defaultValue != "" {
-			return writeString(bufferedWriter, defaultValue)
-		}
-		return nil
-	}
-	var errorWriting error
-	for index, mappedDoc := range matchingNodes {
-		switch printMode {
-		case "p":
-			errorWriting = writeString(bufferedWriter, lib.PathStackToString(mappedDoc.PathStack))
-			if errorWriting != nil {
-				return errorWriting
-			}
-			if index < len(matchingNodes)-1 {
-				errorWriting = writeString(bufferedWriter, "\n")
-				if errorWriting != nil {
-					return errorWriting
-				}
-			}
-		case "pv", "vp":
-			// put it into a node and print that.
-			var parentNode = yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.MappingNode}
-			parentNode.Content = make([]*yaml.Node, 2)
-			parentNode.Content[0] = &yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.ScalarNode, Value: lib.PathStackToString(mappedDoc.PathStack)}
-			parentNode.Content[1] = mappedDoc.Node
-			if err := printValue(&parentNode, bufferedWriter); err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-		default:
-			if err := printValue(mappedDoc.Node, bufferedWriter); err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			// Printing our Scalars does not print a new line at the end
-			// we only want to do that if there are more values (so users can easily script extraction of values in the yaml)
-			if index < len(matchingNodes)-1 && mappedDoc.Node.Kind == yaml.ScalarNode {
-				errorWriting = writeString(bufferedWriter, "\n")
-				if errorWriting != nil {
-					return errorWriting
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-func parseDocumentIndex() (bool, int, error) {
-	if docIndex == "*" {
-		return true, -1, nil
-	}
-	docIndexInt64, err := strconv.ParseInt(docIndex, 10, 32)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, -1, errors.Wrapf(err, "Document index %v is not a integer or *", docIndex)
-	}
-	return false, int(docIndexInt64), nil
-}
-
-type updateDataFn func(dataBucket *yaml.Node, currentIndex int) error
-
-func mapYamlDecoder(updateData updateDataFn, encoder yqlib.Encoder) yamlDecoderFn {
-	return func(decoder *yaml.Decoder) error {
-		var dataBucket yaml.Node
-		var errorReading error
-		var errorWriting error
-		var errorUpdating error
-		var currentIndex = 0
-
-		var updateAll, docIndexInt, errorParsingDocIndex = parseDocumentIndex()
-		if errorParsingDocIndex != nil {
-			return errorParsingDocIndex
-		}
-
-		for {
-			log.Debugf("Read doc %v", currentIndex)
-			errorReading = decoder.Decode(&dataBucket)
-
-			if errorReading == io.EOF && docIndexInt == 0 && currentIndex == 0 {
-				//empty document, lets just make one
-				child := yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.MappingNode}
-				dataBucket = yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.DocumentNode, Content: make([]*yaml.Node, 1)}
-				dataBucket.Content[0] = &child
-			} else if errorReading == io.EOF {
-				if !updateAll && currentIndex <= docIndexInt {
-					return fmt.Errorf("asked to process document index %v but there are only %v document(s)", docIndex, currentIndex)
-				}
-				return nil
-			} else if errorReading != nil {
-				return errors.Wrapf(errorReading, "Error reading document at index %v, %v", currentIndex, errorReading)
-			}
-			errorUpdating = updateData(&dataBucket, currentIndex)
-			if errorUpdating != nil {
-				return errors.Wrapf(errorUpdating, "Error updating document at index %v", currentIndex)
-			}
-
-			if prettyPrint {
-				updateStyleOfNode(&dataBucket, 0)
-			}
-
-			errorWriting = encoder.Encode(&dataBucket)
-
-			if errorWriting != nil {
-				return errors.Wrapf(errorWriting, "Error writing document at index %v, %v", currentIndex, errorWriting)
-			}
-			currentIndex = currentIndex + 1
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func prefixDocument(updateAll bool, docIndexInt int, currentIndex int, dataBucket *yaml.Node, updateCommand yqlib.UpdateCommand) error {
-	if updateAll || currentIndex == docIndexInt {
-		log.Debugf("Prefixing document %v", currentIndex)
-		yqlib.DebugNode(dataBucket)
-		updateCommand.Value = dataBucket.Content[0]
-		dataBucket.Content = make([]*yaml.Node, 1)
-
-		newNode := lib.New(updateCommand.Path)
-		dataBucket.Content[0] = &newNode
-
-		errorUpdating := lib.Update(dataBucket, updateCommand, true)
-		if errorUpdating != nil {
-			return errorUpdating
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func updateDoc(inputFile string, updateCommands []yqlib.UpdateCommand, writer io.Writer) error {
-	var updateAll, docIndexInt, errorParsingDocIndex = parseDocumentIndex()
-	if errorParsingDocIndex != nil {
-		return errorParsingDocIndex
-	}
-
-	var updateData = func(dataBucket *yaml.Node, currentIndex int) error {
-		if updateAll || currentIndex == docIndexInt {
-			log.Debugf("Updating doc %v", currentIndex)
-			for _, updateCommand := range updateCommands {
-				log.Debugf("Processing update to Path %v", updateCommand.Path)
-				errorUpdating := lib.Update(dataBucket, updateCommand, autoCreateFlag)
-				if errorUpdating != nil {
-					return errorUpdating
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		return nil
-	}
-	return readAndUpdate(writer, inputFile, updateData)
-}
-
-func readAndUpdate(stdOut io.Writer, inputFile string, updateData updateDataFn) error {
-	var destination io.Writer
-	var destinationName string
-	if writeInplace {
-		info, err := os.Stat(inputFile)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		tempFile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "temp")
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		destinationName = tempFile.Name()
-		err = os.Chmod(destinationName, info.Mode())
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		destination = tempFile
-		defer func() {
-			safelyCloseFile(tempFile)
-			safelyRenameFile(tempFile.Name(), inputFile)
-		}()
-	} else {
-		destination = stdOut
-		destinationName = "Stdout"
-	}
-
-	log.Debugf("Writing to %v from %v", destinationName, inputFile)
-
-	bufferedWriter := bufio.NewWriter(destination)
-	defer safelyFlush(bufferedWriter)
-
-	var encoder yqlib.Encoder
-	if outputToJSON {
-		encoder = yqlib.NewJsonEncoder(bufferedWriter, prettyPrint, indent)
-	} else {
-		encoder = yqlib.NewYamlEncoder(bufferedWriter, indent)
-	}
-	return readStream(inputFile, mapYamlDecoder(updateData, encoder))
-}
-
-type updateCommandParsed struct {
-	Command string
-	Path    string
-	Value   yaml.Node
-}
-
-func readUpdateCommands(args []string, expectedArgs int, badArgsMessage string) ([]yqlib.UpdateCommand, error) {
-	var updateCommands []yqlib.UpdateCommand = make([]yqlib.UpdateCommand, 0)
-	if writeScript != "" {
-		var parsedCommands = make([]updateCommandParsed, 0)
-
-		err := readData(writeScript, 0, &parsedCommands)
-
-		if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		log.Debugf("Read write commands file '%v'", parsedCommands)
-		for index := range parsedCommands {
-			parsedCommand := parsedCommands[index]
-			updateCommand := yqlib.UpdateCommand{Command: parsedCommand.Command, Path: parsedCommand.Path, Value: &parsedCommand.Value, Overwrite: true}
-			updateCommands = append(updateCommands, updateCommand)
-		}
-
-		log.Debugf("Read write commands file '%v'", updateCommands)
-	} else if len(args) < expectedArgs {
-		return nil, errors.New(badArgsMessage)
-	} else {
-		updateCommands = make([]yqlib.UpdateCommand, 1)
-		log.Debug("args %v", args)
-		log.Debug("path %v", args[expectedArgs-2])
-		log.Debug("Value %v", args[expectedArgs-1])
-		updateCommands[0] = yqlib.UpdateCommand{Command: "update", Path: args[expectedArgs-2], Value: valueParser.Parse(args[expectedArgs-1], customTag), Overwrite: true}
-	}
-	return updateCommands, nil
-}
-
-func safelyRenameFile(from string, to string) {
-	if renameError := os.Rename(from, to); renameError != nil {
-		log.Debugf("Error renaming from %v to %v, attempting to copy contents", from, to)
-		log.Debug(renameError.Error())
-		// can't do this rename when running in docker to a file targeted in a mounted volume,
-		// so gracefully degrade to copying the entire contents.
-		if copyError := copyFileContents(from, to); copyError != nil {
-			log.Errorf("Failed copying from %v to %v", from, to)
-			log.Error(copyError.Error())
-		} else {
-			removeErr := os.Remove(from)
-			if removeErr != nil {
-				log.Errorf("failed removing original file: %s", from)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// thanks https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21060945/simple-way-to-copy-a-file-in-golang
-func copyFileContents(src, dst string) (err error) {
-	in, err := os.Open(src) // nolint gosec
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer safelyCloseFile(in)
-	out, err := os.Create(dst)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer safelyCloseFile(out)
-	if _, err = io.Copy(out, in); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return out.Sync()
-}
-
-func safelyFlush(writer *bufio.Writer) {
-	if err := writer.Flush(); err != nil {
-		log.Error("Error flushing writer!")
-		log.Error(err.Error())
-	}
-
-}
-func safelyCloseFile(file *os.File) {
-	err := file.Close()
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Error("Error closing file!")
-		log.Error(err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-type yamlDecoderFn func(*yaml.Decoder) error
-
-func readStream(filename string, yamlDecoder yamlDecoderFn) error {
-	if filename == "" {
-		return errors.New("Must provide filename")
-	}
-
-	var stream io.Reader
-	if filename == "-" {
-		stream = bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
-	} else {
-		file, err := os.Open(filename) // nolint gosec
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		defer safelyCloseFile(file)
-		stream = file
-	}
-	return yamlDecoder(yaml.NewDecoder(stream))
-}
-
-func readData(filename string, indexToRead int, parsedData interface{}) error {
-	return readStream(filename, func(decoder *yaml.Decoder) error {
-		for currentIndex := 0; currentIndex < indexToRead; currentIndex++ {
-			errorSkipping := decoder.Decode(parsedData)
-			if errorSkipping != nil {
-				return errors.Wrapf(errorSkipping, "Error processing document at index %v, %v", currentIndex, errorSkipping)
-			}
-		}
-		return decoder.Decode(parsedData)
-	})
-}
--- a/cmd/validate.go
+++ b/cmd/validate.go
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-func createValidateCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdRead = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "validate [yaml_file]",
-		Aliases: []string{"v"},
-		Short:   "yq v sample.yaml",
-		Example: `
-yq v - # reads from stdin
-`,
-		RunE:          validateProperty,
-		SilenceUsage:  true,
-		SilenceErrors: true,
-	}
-	cmdRead.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&docIndex, "doc", "d", "0", "process document index number (0 based, * for all documents)")
-	return cmdRead
-}
-
-func validateProperty(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	if len(args) < 1 {
-		return errors.New("Must provide filename")
-	}
-
-	var updateAll, docIndexInt, errorParsingDocIndex = parseDocumentIndex()
-	if errorParsingDocIndex != nil {
-		return errorParsingDocIndex
-	}
-
-	_, errorReadingStream := readYamlFile(args[0], "", updateAll, docIndexInt)
-
-	return errorReadingStream
-}
--- a/cmd/write.go
+++ b/cmd/write.go
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-package cmd
-
-import (
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-func createWriteCmd() *cobra.Command {
-	var cmdWrite = &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "write [yaml_file] [path_expression] [value]",
-		Aliases: []string{"w"},
-		Short:   "yq w [--inplace/-i] [--script/-s script_file] [--doc/-d index] sample.yaml 'b.e(name==fr*).value' newValue",
-		Example: `
-yq write things.yaml 'a.b.c' true
-yq write things.yaml 'a.*.c' true
-yq write things.yaml 'a.**' true
-yq write things.yaml 'a.(child.subchild==co*).c' true
-yq write things.yaml 'a.b.c' --tag '!!str' true # force 'true' to be interpreted as a string instead of bool
-yq write things.yaml 'a.b.c' --tag '!!float' 3
-yq write --inplace -- things.yaml 'a.b.c' '--cat' # need to use '--' to stop processing arguments as flags
-yq w -i things.yaml 'a.b.c' cat
-yq w -i -s update_script.yaml things.yaml
-yq w things.yaml 'a.b.d[+]' foo # appends a new node to the 'd' array
-yq w --doc 2 things.yaml 'a.b.d[+]' foo # updates the 3rd document of the yaml file
-      `,
-		Long: `Updates the yaml file w.r.t the given path and value.
-Outputs to STDOUT unless the inplace flag is used, in which case the file is updated instead.
-
-Append value to array adds the value to the end of array.
-
-Update Scripts:
-Note that you can give an update script to perform more sophisticated update. Update script
-format is list of update commands (update or delete) like so:
---
- command: update
-  path: b.c
-  value:
-    #great
-    things: frog # wow!
- command: delete
-  path: b.d
-`,
-		RunE: writeProperty,
-	}
-	cmdWrite.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&writeInplace, "inplace", "i", false, "update the yaml file inplace")
-	cmdWrite.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&writeScript, "script", "s", "", "yaml script for updating yaml")
-	cmdWrite.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&customTag, "tag", "t", "", "set yaml tag (e.g. !!int)")
-	cmdWrite.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&docIndex, "doc", "d", "0", "process document index number (0 based, * for all documents)")
-	return cmdWrite
-}
-
-func writeProperty(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	var updateCommands, updateCommandsError = readUpdateCommands(args, 3, "Must provide <filename> <path_to_update> <value>")
-	if updateCommandsError != nil {
-		return updateCommandsError
-	}
-	return updateDoc(args[0], updateCommands, cmd.OutOrStdout())
-}
--- a/cmd/commands_test.go
+++ b/cmd/commands_test.go
--- a/compare.sh
+++ b/compare.sh
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--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.de.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.de.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.du.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.du.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.es.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.es.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.fi.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.fi.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.fr.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.fr.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.hu.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.hu.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.it.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.it.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.ja.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.ja.js
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-/*!
- * Lunr languages, `Japanese` language
- * https://github.com/MihaiValentin/lunr-languages
- *
- * Copyright 2014, Chad Liu
- * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
- */
-/*!
- * based on
- * Snowball JavaScript Library v0.3
- * http://code.google.com/p/urim/
- * http://snowball.tartarus.org/
- *
- * Copyright 2010, Oleg Mazko
- * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
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--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.multi.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.multi.js
@@ -1 +1 @@
-!function(e,t){"function"==typeof define&&define.amd?define(t):"object"==typeof exports?module.exports=t():t()(e.lunr)}(this,function(){return function(o){o.multiLanguage=function(){for(var e=Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments),t=e.join("-"),i="",r=[],n=[],s=0;s<e.length;++s)"en"==e[s]?(i+="\\w",r.unshift(o.stopWordFilter),r.push(o.stemmer),n.push(o.stemmer)):(i+=o[e[s]].wordCharacters,o[e[s]].stopWordFilter&&r.unshift(o[e[s]].stopWordFilter),o[e[s]].stemmer&&(r.push(o[e[s]].stemmer),n.push(o[e[s]].stemmer)));var p=o.trimmerSupport.generateTrimmer(i);return o.Pipeline.registerFunction(p,"lunr-multi-trimmer-"+t),r.unshift(p),function(){this.pipeline.reset(),this.pipeline.add.apply(this.pipeline,r),this.searchPipeline&&(this.searchPipeline.reset(),this.searchPipeline.add.apply(this.searchPipeline,n))}}}});
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--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.nl.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.nl.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.no.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.no.js
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-/*!
- * Lunr languages, `Norwegian` language
- * https://github.com/MihaiValentin/lunr-languages
- *
- * Copyright 2014, Mihai Valentin
- * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
- */
-/*!
- * based on
- * Snowball JavaScript Library v0.3
- * http://code.google.com/p/urim/
- * http://snowball.tartarus.org/
- *
- * Copyright 2010, Oleg Mazko
- * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
- */
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--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.pt.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.pt.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.ro.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.ro.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.ru.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.ru.js
--- a/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.stemmer.support.js
+++ b/docs/assets/javascripts/lunr/lunr.stemmer.support.js
@@ -1,9 +1 @@
-/*!
- * Snowball JavaScript Library v0.3
- * http://code.google.com/p/urim/
- * http://snowball.tartarus.org/
- *
- * Copyright 2010, Oleg Mazko
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+<p>To convert output to json, use the --tojson (or -j) flag. This can only be used with the read command.</p>
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+  c: 2
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+</code></pre>
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+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
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+                  <h1>Create</h1>
+                
+                <p>Yaml files can be created using the 'new' command. This works in the same way as the write command, but you don't pass in an existing Yaml file. Currently this does not support creating multiple documents in a single yaml file.</p>
+<pre><code>yq n &lt;path&gt; &lt;new value&gt;
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="creating-a-simple-yaml-file">Creating a simple yaml file<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-a-simple-yaml-file" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq n b.c cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="creating-using-a-create-script">Creating using a create script<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-using-a-create-script" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Create scripts follow the same format as the update scripts.</p>
+<p>Given a script create_instructions.yaml of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b.c: 3
+b.e[+].name: Howdy Partner
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq n -s create_instructions.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 3
+  e:
+    - name: Howdy Partner
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>You can also pipe the instructions in:</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">cat create_instructions.yaml | yq n -s -
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="keys-with-dots">Keys with dots<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-with-dots" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  foo.bar: 7
+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code class="bash">yaml r sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]'
+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code class="bash">yaml w sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]' 9
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Any valid yaml key can be specified as part of a key lookup.</p>
+<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes">Keys (and values) with leading dashes<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>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).</p>
+<p>To fix that, you will need to tell it to stop processing flags by adding '--' after the last flag like so:</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq n -t -- --key --value
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Will result in</p>
+<p><code>`
+--key: --value</code></p>
+                
+                  
+                
+              
+              
+                
+
+
+              
+            </article>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      </main>
+      
+        
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+      Write/Update
+    </a>
+  </li>
+
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+      
+      
+      
+
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+    <a href="../prefix/" title="Prefix" class="md-nav__link">
+      Prefix
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+
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+      
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+
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+      </label>
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+      Delete
+    </a>
+    
+      
+<nav class="md-nav md-nav--secondary">
+  
+  
+  
+    <label class="md-nav__title" for="__toc">Table of contents</label>
+    <ul class="md-nav__list" data-md-scrollfix>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#to-stdout" title="To Stdout" class="md-nav__link">
+    To Stdout
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#from-stdin" title="From STDIN" class="md-nav__link">
+    From STDIN
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#deleting-array-elements" title="Deleting array elements" class="md-nav__link">
+    Deleting array elements
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#deleting-nodes-in-place" title="Deleting nodes in-place" class="md-nav__link">
+    Deleting nodes in-place
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#splat" title="Splat" class="md-nav__link">
+    Splat
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#prefix-splat" title="Prefix Splat" class="md-nav__link">
+    Prefix Splat
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#array-splat" title="Array Splat" class="md-nav__link">
+    Array Splat
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#multiple-documents-delete-from-single-document" title="Multiple Documents - delete from single document" class="md-nav__link">
+    Multiple Documents - delete from single document
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#multiple-documents-delete-from-all-documents" title="Multiple Documents - delete from all documents" class="md-nav__link">
+    Multiple Documents - delete from all documents
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#keys-with-dots" title="Keys with dots" class="md-nav__link">
+    Keys with dots
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Keys (and values) with leading dashes" class="md-nav__link">
+    Keys (and values) with leading dashes
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+      
+      
+      
+      
+    </ul>
+  
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+    
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+
+    
+      
+      
+      
+
+
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+    <a href="../create/" title="Create" class="md-nav__link">
+      Create
+    </a>
+  </li>
+
+    
+      
+      
+      
+
+
+  <li class="md-nav__item">
+    <a href="../convert/" title="Convert" class="md-nav__link">
+      Convert
+    </a>
+  </li>
+
+    
+      
+      
+      
+
+
+  <li class="md-nav__item">
+    <a href="../merge/" title="Merge" class="md-nav__link">
+      Merge
+    </a>
+  </li>
+
+    
+  </ul>
+</nav>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+              </div>
+            
+            
+              <div class="md-sidebar md-sidebar--secondary" data-md-component="toc">
+                <div class="md-sidebar__scrollwrap">
+                  <div class="md-sidebar__inner">
+                    
+<nav class="md-nav md-nav--secondary">
+  
+  
+  
+    <label class="md-nav__title" for="__toc">Table of contents</label>
+    <ul class="md-nav__list" data-md-scrollfix>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#to-stdout" title="To Stdout" class="md-nav__link">
+    To Stdout
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#from-stdin" title="From STDIN" class="md-nav__link">
+    From STDIN
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#deleting-array-elements" title="Deleting array elements" class="md-nav__link">
+    Deleting array elements
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#deleting-nodes-in-place" title="Deleting nodes in-place" class="md-nav__link">
+    Deleting nodes in-place
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#splat" title="Splat" class="md-nav__link">
+    Splat
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#prefix-splat" title="Prefix Splat" class="md-nav__link">
+    Prefix Splat
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#array-splat" title="Array Splat" class="md-nav__link">
+    Array Splat
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#multiple-documents-delete-from-single-document" title="Multiple Documents - delete from single document" class="md-nav__link">
+    Multiple Documents - delete from single document
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#multiple-documents-delete-from-all-documents" title="Multiple Documents - delete from all documents" class="md-nav__link">
+    Multiple Documents - delete from all documents
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#keys-with-dots" title="Keys with dots" class="md-nav__link">
+    Keys with dots
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Keys (and values) with leading dashes" class="md-nav__link">
+    Keys (and values) with leading dashes
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+      
+      
+      
+      
+    </ul>
+  
+</nav>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+              </div>
+            
+          
+          <div class="md-content">
+            <article class="md-content__inner md-typeset">
+              
+                
+                  <a href="https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/edit/master/docs/delete.md" title="Edit this page" class="md-icon md-content__icon">&#xE3C9;</a>
+                
+                
+                  <h1>Delete</h1>
+                
+                <pre><code>yq d &lt;yaml_file&gt; &lt;path_to_delete&gt;
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="to-stdout">To Stdout<a class="headerlink" href="#to-stdout" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+  apples: green
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq d sample.yaml b.c
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  apples: green
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="from-stdin">From STDIN<a class="headerlink" href="#from-stdin" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<pre><code class="bash">cat sample.yaml | yq d - b.c
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="deleting-array-elements">Deleting array elements<a class="headerlink" href="#deleting-array-elements" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq d sample.yaml 'b.c[1]'
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c:
+  - 1
+  - 3
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="deleting-nodes-in-place">Deleting nodes in-place<a class="headerlink" href="#deleting-nodes-in-place" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+  apples: green
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq d -i sample.yaml b.c
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will update the sample.yaml file so that the 'c' node is deleted</p>
+<h3 id="splat">Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+    dogs: woof3
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq d sample.yaml bob.*.cats
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    dogs: woof3
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="prefix-splat">Prefix Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#prefix-splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+    dogs: woof3
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq d sample.yaml bob.item*.cats
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+    dogs: woof3
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="array-splat">Array Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#array-splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+- cats: bananas
+  dogs: woof
+- cats: apples
+  dogs: woof2
+- cats: oranges
+  dogs: woof3
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq d sample.yaml bob.[*].cats
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+- dogs: woof
+- dogs: woof2
+- dogs: woof3
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-delete-from-single-document">Multiple Documents - delete from single document<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-delete-from-single-document" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+field: leaveMe
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+field: deleteMe
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w -d1 sample.yaml field
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+field: leaveMe
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-delete-from-all-documents">Multiple Documents - delete from all documents<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-delete-from-all-documents" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+field: deleteMe
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+field: deleteMeToo
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w -d'*' sample.yaml field
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Note that '*' is in quotes to avoid being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="keys-with-dots">Keys with dots<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-with-dots" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  foo.bar: 7
+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code class="bash">yaml r sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]'
+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code class="bash">yaml w sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]' 9
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Any valid yaml key can be specified as part of a key lookup.</p>
+<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes">Keys (and values) with leading dashes<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>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).</p>
+<p>To fix that, you will need to tell it to stop processing flags by adding '--' after the last flag like so:</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq n -t -- --key --value
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Will result in</p>
+<p><code>`
+--key: --value</code></p>
+                
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-      <a href="#new-documentation-website" tabindex="1" class="md-skip">
+      <a href="#yq" tabindex="1" class="md-skip">
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              Yq
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-
+            <span class="md-header-nav__topic">
+              Install
+            </span>
          
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+<div class="md-search" data-md-component="search" role="dialog">
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-                  <h1>New documentation website</h1>
                
-<p>User docs are better than ever, and have been <a href="https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq">moved here</a></p>
+                <h1 id="yq">yq<a class="headerlink" href="#yq" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h1>
+<p>yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor</p>
+<p>The aim of the project is to be the <a href="https://github.com/stedolan/jq">jq</a> or sed of yaml files.</p>
+<h2 id="install">Install<a class="headerlink" href="#install" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
+<p>On MacOS:</p>
+<pre><code>brew install yq
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>On Ubuntu and other Linux distros supporting <code>snap</code> packages:</p>
+<pre><code>snap install yq
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>On Ubuntu 16.04 or higher from Debian package:</p>
+<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rmescandon/yq
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install yq -y
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>or, <a href="https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/latest">Download latest binary</a> or alternatively:</p>
+<pre><code>go get gopkg.in/mikefarah/yq.v2
+</code></pre>
+
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+                  <h1>Merge</h1>
+                
+                <p>Yaml files can be merged using the 'merge' command. Each additional file merged with the first file will
+set values for any key not existing already or where the key has no value.</p>
+<pre><code>yq m &lt;yaml_file&gt; &lt;path&gt;...
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="to-stdout">To Stdout<a class="headerlink" href="#to-stdout" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and data2.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: other
+c:
+  test: 1
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq m data1.yaml data2.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+c:
+  test: 1
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="updating-files-in-place">Updating files in-place<a class="headerlink" href="#updating-files-in-place" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and data2.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: other
+c:
+  test: 1
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq m -i data1.yaml data2.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will update the data1.yaml file so that the value of 'c' is 'test: 1'.</p>
+<h3 id="overwrite-values">Overwrite values<a class="headerlink" href="#overwrite-values" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and data2.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: other
+c:
+  test: 1
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq m -x data1.yaml data2.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: other
+b: [1, 2]
+c:
+  test: 1
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="overwrite-values-with-arrays">Overwrite values with arrays<a class="headerlink" href="#overwrite-values-with-arrays" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and data3.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b: [3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+d: false
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq m -x data1.yaml data3.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+d: false
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Notice that 'b' does not result in the merging of the values within an array. </p>
+<h3 id="append-values-with-arrays">Append values with arrays<a class="headerlink" href="#append-values-with-arrays" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+d: hi
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and data3.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: something
+b: [3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq m -a data1.yaml data3.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2, 3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+d: hi
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Note that the 'b' array has concatenated the values from the second data file. Also note that other map keys are not overridden (field a).</p>
+<p>Append cannot be used with overwrite, if both flags are given then append is ignored.</p>
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-merge-into-single-document">Multiple Documents - merge into single document<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-merge-into-single-document" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Currently yq only has multi-document support for the <em>first</em> document being merged into. The remaining yaml files will have their first document selected.</p>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and data3.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b: dog
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq m -x -d1 data1.yaml data3.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: dog
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-merge-into-all-documents">Multiple Documents - merge into all documents<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-merge-into-all-documents" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Currently yq only has multi-document support for the <em>first</em> document being merged into. The remaining yaml files will have their first document selected.</p>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and data3.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b: dog
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq m -x -d'*' data1.yaml data3.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b: dog
+something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: dog
+</code></pre>
+                
+                  
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+                  <h1>Prefix</h1>
+                
+                <p>Paths can be prefixed using the 'prefix' command.
+The complete yaml content will be nested inside the new prefix path.</p>
+<pre><code>yq p &lt;yaml_file&gt; &lt;path&gt;
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="to-stdout">To Stdout<a class="headerlink" href="#to-stdout" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
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+<pre><code class="bash">yq p data1.yaml c
+</code></pre>
+
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+  a: simple
+  b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
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+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a:
+  b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq p data1.yaml c.d
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">c:
+  d:
+    a:
+      b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="updating-files-in-place">Updating files in-place<a class="headerlink" href="#updating-files-in-place" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq p -i data1.yaml c
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will update the data1.yaml file so that the path 'c' is prefixed to all other paths.</p>
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-prefix-a-single-document">Multiple Documents - prefix a single document<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-prefix-a-single-document" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq p -d1 data1.yaml c
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+c:
+  a: simple
+  b: cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-prefix-all-documents">Multiple Documents - prefix all documents<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-prefix-all-documents" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a data1.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq p -d'*' data1.yaml c
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">c:
+  something: else
+---
+c:
+  a: simple
+  b: cat
+</code></pre>
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+                
+                <pre><code>yq r &lt;yaml_file|json_file&gt; &lt;path&gt;
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>This command can take a json file as input too, and will output yaml unless specified to export as json (-j)</p>
+<h3 id="basic">Basic<a class="headerlink" href="#basic" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
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+<pre><code class="bash">yq r sample.yaml b.c
+</code></pre>
+
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+<h3 id="from-stdin">From Stdin<a class="headerlink" href="#from-stdin" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
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+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output the value of '2'.</p>
+<h3 id="splat">Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq r sample.yaml bob.*.cats
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">- bananas
+- apples
+- oranges
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="prefix-splat">Prefix Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#prefix-splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq r sample.yaml bob.item*.cats
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">- bananas
+- apples
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-specify-a-single-document">Multiple Documents - specify a single document<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-specify-a-single-document" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq r -d1 sample.yaml b.c
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output the value of '2'.</p>
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-read-all-documents">Multiple Documents - read all documents<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-read-all-documents" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Reading all documents will return the result as an array. This can be converted to json using the '-j' flag if desired.</p>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">name: Fred
+age: 22
+---
+name: Stella
+age: 23
+---
+name: Android
+age: 232
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq r -d'*' sample.yaml name
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code>- Fred
+- Stella
+- Android
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="arrays">Arrays<a class="headerlink" href="#arrays" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>You can give an index to access a specific element:
+e.g.: given a sample file of</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  e:
+    - name: fred
+      value: 3
+    - name: sam
+      value: 4
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code>yq r sample.yaml 'b.e[1].name'
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output 'sam'</p>
+<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="array-splat">Array Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#array-splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>e.g.: given a sample file of</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  e:
+    - name: fred
+      value: 3
+    - name: sam
+      value: 4
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code>yq r sample.yaml 'b.e[*].name'
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code>- fred
+- sam
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="keys-with-dots">Keys with dots<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-with-dots" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  foo.bar: 7
+</code></pre>
+
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+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code class="bash">yaml w sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]' 9
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Any valid yaml key can be specified as part of a key lookup.</p>
+<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes">Keys (and values) with leading dashes<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>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).</p>
+<p>To fix that, you will need to tell it to stop processing flags by adding '--' after the last flag like so:</p>
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+<p>When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.</p>
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+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#appending-value-to-an-array-field" title="Appending value to an array field" class="md-nav__link">
+    Appending value to an array field
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#multiple-documents-update-a-single-document" title="Multiple Documents - update a single document" class="md-nav__link">
+    Multiple Documents - update a single document
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#multiple-documents-update-all-documents" title="Multiple Documents - update all documents" class="md-nav__link">
+    Multiple Documents - update all documents
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#updating-files-in-place" title="Updating files in-place" class="md-nav__link">
+    Updating files in-place
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#updating-multiple-values-with-a-script" title="Updating multiple values with a script" class="md-nav__link">
+    Updating multiple values with a script
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#values-starting-with-a-hyphen-or-dash" title="Values starting with a hyphen (or dash)" class="md-nav__link">
+    Values starting with a hyphen (or dash)
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#keys-with-dots" title="Keys with dots" class="md-nav__link">
+    Keys with dots
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+        <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Keys (and values) with leading dashes" class="md-nav__link">
+    Keys (and values) with leading dashes
+  </a>
+  
+</li>
+      
+      
+      
+      
+      
+    </ul>
+  
+</nav>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+              </div>
+            
+          
+          <div class="md-content">
+            <article class="md-content__inner md-typeset">
+              
+                
+                  <a href="https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/edit/master/docs/write.md" title="Edit this page" class="md-icon md-content__icon">&#xE3C9;</a>
+                
+                
+                  <h1>Write/Update</h1>
+                
+                <pre><code>yq w &lt;yaml_file&gt; &lt;path&gt; &lt;new value&gt;
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="to-stdout">To Stdout<a class="headerlink" href="#to-stdout" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml b.c cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="from-stdin">From STDIN<a class="headerlink" href="#from-stdin" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<pre><code class="bash">cat sample.yaml | yq w - b.c blah
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="adding-new-fields">Adding new fields<a class="headerlink" href="#adding-new-fields" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Any missing fields in the path will be created on the fly.</p>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml b.d[+] &quot;new thing&quot;
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: cat
+  d:
+    - new thing
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="splat">Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml bob.*.cats meow
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: meow
+  item2:
+    cats: meow
+  thing:
+    cats: meow
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="prefix-splat">Prefix Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#prefix-splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml bob.item*.cats meow
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: meow
+  item2:
+    cats: meow
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="array-splat">Array Splat<a class="headerlink" href="#array-splat" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+- cats: bananas
+- cats: apples
+- cats: oranges
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml bob[*].cats meow
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">---
+bob:
+- cats: meow
+- cats: meow
+- cats: meow
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="appending-value-to-an-array-field">Appending value to an array field<a class="headerlink" href="#appending-value-to-an-array-field" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+  d:
+    - new thing
+    - foo thing
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w sample.yaml &quot;b.d[+]&quot; &quot;bar thing&quot;
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: cat
+  d:
+    - new thing
+    - foo thing
+    - bar thing
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-update-a-single-document">Multiple Documents - update a single document<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-update-a-single-document" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w -d1 sample.yaml b.c 5
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 5
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="multiple-documents-update-all-documents">Multiple Documents - update all documents<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-documents-update-all-documents" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w -d'*' sample.yaml b.c 5
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">something: else
+b:
+  c: 5
+---
+b:
+  c: 5
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Note that '*' is in quotes to avoid being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="updating-files-in-place">Updating files in-place<a class="headerlink" href="#updating-files-in-place" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w -i sample.yaml b.c cat
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will update the sample.yaml file so that the value of 'c' is cat.</p>
+<h3 id="updating-multiple-values-with-a-script">Updating multiple values with a script<a class="headerlink" href="#updating-multiple-values-with-a-script" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>Given a sample.yaml file of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 2
+  e:
+    - name: Billy Bob
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>and a script update_instructions.yaml of:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b.c: 3
+b.e[+].name: Howdy Partner
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>then</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq w -s update_instructions.yaml sample.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output:</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  c: 3
+  e:
+    - name: Howdy Partner
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>And, of course, you can pipe the instructions in using '-':</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">cat update_instructions.yaml | yq w -s - sample.yaml
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="values-starting-with-a-hyphen-or-dash">Values starting with a hyphen (or dash)<a class="headerlink" href="#values-starting-with-a-hyphen-or-dash" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>The flag terminator needs to be used to stop the app from attempting to parse the subsequent arguments as flags:</p>
+<pre><code>yq w -- my.path -3
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>will output</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">my:
+  path: -3
+</code></pre>
+
+<h3 id="keys-with-dots">Keys with dots<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-with-dots" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.</p>
+<pre><code class="yaml">b:
+  foo.bar: 7
+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code class="bash">yaml r sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]'
+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code class="bash">yaml w sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]' 9
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Any valid yaml key can be specified as part of a key lookup.</p>
+<p>Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.</p>
+<h3 id="keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes">Keys (and values) with leading dashes<a class="headerlink" href="#keys-and-values-with-leading-dashes" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
+<p>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).</p>
+<p>To fix that, you will need to tell it to stop processing flags by adding '--' after the last flag like so:</p>
+<pre><code class="bash">yq n -t -- --key --value
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>Will result in</p>
+<p><code>`
+--key: --value</code></p>
+                
+                  
+                
+              
+              
+                
+
+
+              
+            </article>
+          </div>
+        </div>
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--- a/examples/array.yaml
+++ b/examples/array.yaml
@@ -7,5 +7,3 @@
    - lala
    - land
  serial: 1
- become: false
-  gather_facts: true
--- a/examples/bad.yaml
+++ b/examples/bad.yaml
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-b:
-  d: be gone
-  c: 2
-  e:
-    - name: Billy Bob # comment over here
-
---
-[123123
--- a/examples/data1.yaml
+++ b/examples/data1.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-a: simple # just the best
+a: simple
 b: [1, 2]
-c:
-  test: 1
--- a/examples/data2.yaml
+++ b/examples/data2.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-a: other # better than the original
+a: other
 b: [3, 4]
 c:
-  toast: leave
  test: 1
-  tell: 1
-  tasty.taco: cool
--- a/examples/data3.yaml
+++ b/examples/data3.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
-a: "simple" # just the best
-b: [1, 3]
-c:
-  test: 1
+deep1:
+   hostA:
+      value: 1234
+   notRelevant:
+      value: bananas
+   hostB:
+      value: 5678
+deep2:
+   hostC:
+      value: 1234
+   notRelevant:
+      value: bananas
+   hostD:
+      value: 5678
--- a/examples/instruction_sample.yaml
+++ b/examples/instruction_sample.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,2 @@
- command: update 
-  path: b.c
-  value:
-    #great 
-    things: frog # wow!
- command: delete
-  path: b.d
+b.c: cat
+b.e[+].name: Mike Farah
--- a/examples/merge-anchor.yaml
+++ b/examples/merge-anchor.yaml
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-foo: &foo
-  a: original
-  thing: coolasdf
-  thirsty: yep
-
-bar: &bar
-  b: 2
-  thing: coconut
-  c: oldbar
-
-foobarList:
-  <<: [*foo,*bar]
-  c: newbar
-
-foobar:
-  <<: *foo
-  thirty: well beyond
-  thing: ice
-  c: 3
--- a/examples/sample.yaml
+++ b/examples/sample.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-a: true
+a: Easy! as one two three
 b:
  c: 2
-  d: [3, 4, 5]
+  d: [3, 4]
  e:
    - name: fred
      value: 3
--- a/examples/sample2.yaml
+++ b/examples/sample2.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
+a: Easy! as one two three
 b:
-  c: things
+  c: things
+  d: whatever
+things:
+ thing1:
+  cat: 'fred'
+ thing2:
+  cat: 'sam'
--- a/examples/sample_array_2.yaml
+++ b/examples/sample_array_2.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
- 4
- 5
+[4,5]
--- a/examples/simple-anchor.yaml
+++ b/examples/simple-anchor.yaml
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-foo: &foo
-  a: 1
-
-foobar: 
-  <<: *foo
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-module github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3
+module github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2

 require (
-	github.com/kylelemons/godebug v1.1.0
+	github.com/mikefarah/yaml/v2 v2.4.0
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.8.1
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.5
-	golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191213221258-04c2e8eff935 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/imdario/mergo.v0 v0.3.7 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191030203535-5e247c9ad0a0 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/imdario/mergo.v0 v0.3.7
 	gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1 v1.0.0-20160211212156-b2cb9fa56473
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20191120175047-4206685974f2
 )

 go 1.13
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -9,14 +9,9 @@ github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.7/go.mod h1:jwhsz4b93w/PPRr/qN1Yymfu8t87LnFCMo
 github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.0/go.mod h1:E5yfLk+7swimpb2L/Alb/PJmXilQ/rhwaUYs4T20WEQ=
 github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.0.0 h1:Z8tu5sraLXCXIcARxBp/8cbvlwVa7Z1NHg9XEKhtSvM=
 github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.0.0/go.mod h1:PxqpIevigyE2G7u3NXJIT2ANytuPF1OarO4DADm73n8=
-github.com/kylelemons/godebug v1.1.0 h1:RPNrshWIDI6G2gRW9EHilWtl7Z6Sb1BR0xunSBf0SNc=
-github.com/kylelemons/godebug v1.1.0/go.mod h1:9/0rRGxNHcop5bhtWyNeEfOS8JIWk580+fNqagV/RAw=
 github.com/magiconair/properties v1.8.0/go.mod h1:PppfXfuXeibc/6YijjN8zIbojt8czPbwD3XqdrwzmxQ=
-github.com/mikefarah/yaml v2.1.0+incompatible h1:nu2cqmzk4WlWJNgnevY88faMcdrDzYGcsUjYFxEpB7Y=
 github.com/mikefarah/yaml/v2 v2.4.0 h1:eYqfooY0BnvKTJxr7+ABJs13n3dg9n347GScDaU2Lww=
 github.com/mikefarah/yaml/v2 v2.4.0/go.mod h1:ahVqZF4n1W4NqwvVnZzC4es67xsW9uR/RRf2RRxieJU=
-github.com/mikefarah/yq v2.4.0+incompatible h1:oBxbWy8R9hI3BIUUxEf0CzikWa2AgnGrGhvGQt5jgjk=
-github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2 v2.4.1 h1:tajDonaFK6WqitSZExB6fKlWQy/yCkptqxh2AXEe3N4=
 github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0/go.mod h1:SfyaCUpYCn1Vlf4IUYiD9fPX4A5wJrkLzIz1N1q0pr0=
 github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.1.2/go.mod h1:FVVH3fgwuzCH5S8UJGiWEs2h04kUh9fWfEaFds41c1Y=
 github.com/pelletier/go-toml v1.2.0/go.mod h1:5z9KED0ma1S8pY6P1sdut58dfprrGBbd/94hg7ilaic=
@@ -37,21 +32,14 @@ github.com/ugorji/go/codec v0.0.0-20181204163529-d75b2dcb6bc8/go.mod h1:VFNgLljT
 github.com/xordataexchange/crypt v0.0.3-0.20170626215501-b2862e3d0a77/go.mod h1:aYKd//L2LvnjZzWKhF00oedf4jCCReLcmhLdhm1A27Q=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20181203042331-505ab145d0a9/go.mod h1:6SG95UA2DQfeDnfUPMdvaQW0Q7yPrPDi9nlGo2tz2b4=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20190308221718-c2843e01d9a2/go.mod h1:djNgcEr1/C05ACkg1iLfiJU5Ep61QUkGW8qpdssI0+w=
-golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20191011191535-87dc89f01550/go.mod h1:yigFU9vqHzYiE8UmvKecakEJjdnWj3jj499lnFckfCI=
-golang.org/x/mod v0.1.1-0.20191105210325-c90efee705ee/go.mod h1:QqPTAvyqsEbceGzBzNggFXnrqF1CaUcvgkdR5Ot7KZg=
-golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190404232315-eb5bcb51f2a3/go.mod h1:t9HGtf8HONx5eT2rtn7q6eTqICYqUVnKs3thJo3Qplg=
 golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190620200207-3b0461eec859/go.mod h1:z5CRVTTTmAJ677TzLLGU+0bjPO0LkuOLi4/5GtJWs/s=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20181205085412-a5c9d58dba9a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
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--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,27 @@ docs_dir: mkdocs
 site_dir: docs
 site_name: Yq
 theme: 'material'
+pages:
+    - Install: index.md
+    - Read: read.md
+    - Write/Update: write.md
+    - Prefix: prefix.md
+    - Delete: delete.md
+    - Create: create.md
+    - Convert: convert.md
+    - Merge: merge.md
 repo_name: 'mikefarah/yq'
 repo_url: 'https://github.com/mikefarah/yq'

+extra:
+  social:
+    - type: 'github'
+      link: 'https://github.com/mikefarah'
+    - type: 'linkedin'
+      link: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-farah-b5a75b2/'
+
+markdown_extensions:
+  - markdown_include.include:
+      base_path: mkdocs
+  - toc:
+      permalink: True
--- a/mkdocs/convert.md
+++ b/mkdocs/convert.md
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+### Yaml to Json
+To convert output to json, use the --tojson (or -j) flag. This can only be used with the read command.
+
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq r -j sample.yaml b.c
+```
+
+will output
+```json
+{"b":{"c":2}}
+```
+
+### Json to Yaml
+To read in json, just pass in a json file instead of yaml, it will just work :)
+
+e.g given a json file
+
+```json
+{"a":"Easy! as one two three","b":{"c":2,"d":[3,4]}}
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq r sample.json
+```
+will output
+```yaml
+a: Easy! as one two three
+b:
+  c: 2
+  d:
+  - 3
+  - 4
+```
+
--- a/mkdocs/create.md
+++ b/mkdocs/create.md
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+Yaml files can be created using the 'new' command. This works in the same way as the write command, but you don't pass in an existing Yaml file. Currently this does not support creating multiple documents in a single yaml file.
+
+```
+yq n <path> <new value>
+```
+
+### Creating a simple yaml file
+```bash
+yq n b.c cat
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: cat
+```
+
+### Creating using a create script
+Create scripts follow the same format as the update scripts.
+
+Given a script create_instructions.yaml of:
+```yaml
+b.c: 3
+b.e[+].name: Howdy Partner
+```
+then
+
+```bash
+yq n -s create_instructions.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 3
+  e:
+    - name: Howdy Partner
+```
+
+You can also pipe the instructions in:
+
+```bash
+cat create_instructions.yaml | yq n -s -
+```
+
+{!snippets/niche.md!}
--- a/mkdocs/delete.md
+++ b/mkdocs/delete.md
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+```
+yq d <yaml_file> <path_to_delete>
+```
+
+### To Stdout
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+  apples: green
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq d sample.yaml b.c
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  apples: green
+```
+
+### From STDIN
+```bash
+cat sample.yaml | yq d - b.c
+```
+
+### Deleting array elements
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq d sample.yaml 'b.c[1]'
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c:
+  - 1
+  - 3
+```
+
+### Deleting nodes in-place
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+  apples: green
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq d -i sample.yaml b.c
+```
+will update the sample.yaml file so that the 'c' node is deleted
+
+
+### Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+    dogs: woof3
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq d sample.yaml bob.*.cats
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    dogs: woof3
+```
+
+### Prefix Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+    dogs: woof3
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq d sample.yaml bob.item*.cats
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    dogs: woof
+  item2:
+    dogs: woof2
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+    dogs: woof3
+```
+
+### Array Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+- cats: bananas
+  dogs: woof
+- cats: apples
+  dogs: woof2
+- cats: oranges
+  dogs: woof3
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq d sample.yaml bob.[*].cats
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+- dogs: woof
+- dogs: woof2
+- dogs: woof3
+```
+
+### Multiple Documents - delete from single document
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+field: leaveMe
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+field: deleteMe
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w -d1 sample.yaml field
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+something: else
+field: leaveMe
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+
+### Multiple Documents - delete from all documents
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+field: deleteMe
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+field: deleteMeToo
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w -d'*' sample.yaml field
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+
+Note that '*' is in quotes to avoid being interpreted by your shell.
+
+{!snippets/niche.md!}
--- a/mkdocs/index.md
+++ b/mkdocs/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# yq
+yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor
+
+The aim of the project is to be the [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) or sed of yaml files.
+
+## Install
+On MacOS:
+```
+brew install yq
+```
+On Ubuntu and other Linux distros supporting `snap` packages:
+```
+snap install yq
+```
+On Ubuntu 16.04 or higher from Debian package:
+```
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rmescandon/yq
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install yq -y
+```
+or, [Download latest binary](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/latest) or alternatively:
+```
+go get gopkg.in/mikefarah/yq.v2
+```
+
+[View on GitHub](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq)
--- a/mkdocs/merge.md
+++ b/mkdocs/merge.md
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+Yaml files can be merged using the 'merge' command. Each additional file merged with the first file will
+set values for any key not existing already or where the key has no value.
+
+```
+yq m <yaml_file> <path>...
+```
+
+
+### To Stdout
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+```
+and data2.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: other
+c:
+  test: 1
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq m data1.yaml data2.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+c:
+  test: 1
+```
+
+### Updating files in-place
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+```
+and data2.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: other
+c:
+  test: 1
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq m -i data1.yaml data2.yaml
+```
+will update the data1.yaml file so that the value of 'c' is 'test: 1'.
+
+### Overwrite values
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+```
+and data2.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: other
+c:
+  test: 1
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq m -x data1.yaml data2.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+a: other
+b: [1, 2]
+c:
+  test: 1
+```
+
+### Overwrite values with arrays
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+```
+and data3.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b: [3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+d: false
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq m -x data1.yaml data3.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+d: false
+```
+
+Notice that 'b' does not result in the merging of the values within an array. 
+
+### Append values with arrays
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+d: hi
+```
+and data3.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: something
+b: [3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq m -a data1.yaml data3.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2, 3, 4]
+c:
+  test: 2
+  other: true
+d: hi
+```
+
+Note that the 'b' array has concatenated the values from the second data file. Also note that other map keys are not overridden (field a).
+
+Append cannot be used with overwrite, if both flags are given then append is ignored.
+
+### Multiple Documents - merge into single document
+Currently yq only has multi-document support for the _first_ document being merged into. The remaining yaml files will have their first document selected.
+
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+```
+and data3.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b: dog
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq m -x -d1 data1.yaml data3.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: dog
+```
+
+### Multiple Documents - merge into all documents
+Currently yq only has multi-document support for the _first_ document being merged into. The remaining yaml files will have their first document selected.
+
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+```
+and data3.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b: dog
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq m -x -d'*' data1.yaml data3.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b: dog
+something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: dog
+```
--- a/mkdocs/prefix.md
+++ b/mkdocs/prefix.md
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+Paths can be prefixed using the 'prefix' command.
+The complete yaml content will be nested inside the new prefix path.
+
+```
+yq p <yaml_file> <path>
+```
+
+### To Stdout
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq p data1.yaml c
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+c:
+  a: simple
+  b: [1, 2]
+```
+
+### Arbitrary depth
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a:
+  b: [1, 2]
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq p data1.yaml c.d
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+c:
+  d:
+    a:
+      b: [1, 2]
+```
+
+### Updating files in-place
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+a: simple
+b: [1, 2]
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq p -i data1.yaml c
+```
+will update the data1.yaml file so that the path 'c' is prefixed to all other paths.
+
+### Multiple Documents - prefix a single document
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq p -d1 data1.yaml c
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+c:
+  a: simple
+  b: cat
+```
+
+### Multiple Documents - prefix all documents
+Given a data1.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+a: simple
+b: cat
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq p -d'*' data1.yaml c
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+c:
+  something: else
+---
+c:
+  a: simple
+  b: cat
+```
--- a/mkdocs/read.md
+++ b/mkdocs/read.md
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+```
+yq r <yaml_file|json_file> <path>
+```
+
+{!snippets/works_with_json.md!}
+
+### Basic
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq r sample.yaml b.c
+```
+will output the value of '2'.
+
+### From Stdin
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```bash
+cat sample.yaml | yq r - b.c
+```
+will output the value of '2'.
+
+### Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq r sample.yaml bob.*.cats
+```
+will output
+```yaml
+- bananas
+- apples
+- oranges
+```
+
+### Prefix Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq r sample.yaml bob.item*.cats
+```
+will output
+```yaml
+- bananas
+- apples
+```
+
+### Multiple Documents - specify a single document
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq r -d1 sample.yaml b.c
+```
+will output the value of '2'.
+
+### Multiple Documents - read all documents
+Reading all documents will return the result as an array. This can be converted to json using the '-j' flag if desired.
+
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+name: Fred
+age: 22
+---
+name: Stella
+age: 23
+---
+name: Android
+age: 232
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq r -d'*' sample.yaml name
+```
+will output:
+```
+- Fred
+- Stella
+- Android
+```
+
+### Arrays
+You can give an index to access a specific element:
+e.g.: given a sample file of
+```yaml
+b:
+  e:
+    - name: fred
+      value: 3
+    - name: sam
+      value: 4
+```
+then
+```
+yq r sample.yaml 'b.e[1].name'
+```
+will output 'sam'
+
+Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.
+
+### Array Splat
+e.g.: given a sample file of
+```yaml
+b:
+  e:
+    - name: fred
+      value: 3
+    - name: sam
+      value: 4
+```
+then
+```
+yq r sample.yaml 'b.e[*].name'
+```
+will output:
+```
+- fred
+- sam
+```
+Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.
+
+{!snippets/niche.md!}
--- a/mkdocs/snippets/niche.md
+++ b/mkdocs/snippets/niche.md
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+### Keys with dots
+When specifying a key that has a dot use key lookup indicator.
+
+```yaml
+b:
+  foo.bar: 7
+```
+
+```bash
+yaml r sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]'
+```
+
+```bash
+yaml w sample.yaml 'b[foo.bar]' 9
+```
+
+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:
+
+
+```bash
+yq n -t -- --key --value
+```
+
+Will result in
+
+```
+--key: --value
+```
--- a/mkdocs/snippets/works_with_json.md
+++ b/mkdocs/snippets/works_with_json.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This command can take a json file as input too, and will output yaml unless specified to export as json (-j)
--- a/mkdocs/write.md
+++ b/mkdocs/write.md
@@ -0,0 +1,250 @@
+```
+yq w <yaml_file> <path> <new value>
+```
+
+### To Stdout
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w sample.yaml b.c cat
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: cat
+```
+
+### From STDIN
+```bash
+cat sample.yaml | yq w - b.c blah
+```
+
+### Adding new fields
+Any missing fields in the path will be created on the fly.
+
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w sample.yaml b.d[+] "new thing"
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: cat
+  d:
+    - new thing
+```
+
+### Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w sample.yaml bob.*.cats meow
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: meow
+  item2:
+    cats: meow
+  thing:
+    cats: meow
+```
+
+### Prefix Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w sample.yaml bob.item*.cats meow
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+  item1:
+    cats: meow
+  item2:
+    cats: meow
+  thing:
+    cats: oranges
+```
+
+### Array Splat
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+- cats: bananas
+- cats: apples
+- cats: oranges
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w sample.yaml bob[*].cats meow
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+---
+bob:
+- cats: meow
+- cats: meow
+- cats: meow
+```
+
+### Appending value to an array field
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+  d:
+    - new thing
+    - foo thing
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w sample.yaml "b.d[+]" "bar thing"
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: cat
+  d:
+    - new thing
+    - foo thing
+    - bar thing
+```
+
+Note that the path is in quotes to avoid the square brackets being interpreted by your shell.
+
+### Multiple Documents - update a single document
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w -d1 sample.yaml b.c 5
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 5
+```
+
+### Multiple Documents - update all documents
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+something: else
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w -d'*' sample.yaml b.c 5
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+something: else
+b:
+  c: 5
+---
+b:
+  c: 5
+```
+
+Note that '*' is in quotes to avoid being interpreted by your shell.
+
+### Updating files in-place
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+```
+then
+```bash
+yq w -i sample.yaml b.c cat
+```
+will update the sample.yaml file so that the value of 'c' is cat.
+
+
+### Updating multiple values with a script
+Given a sample.yaml file of:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 2
+  e:
+    - name: Billy Bob
+```
+and a script update_instructions.yaml of:
+```yaml
+b.c: 3
+b.e[+].name: Howdy Partner
+```
+then
+
+```bash
+yq w -s update_instructions.yaml sample.yaml
+```
+will output:
+```yaml
+b:
+  c: 3
+  e:
+    - name: Howdy Partner
+```
+
+And, of course, you can pipe the instructions in using '-':
+```bash
+cat update_instructions.yaml | yq w -s - sample.yaml
+```
+
+### Values starting with a hyphen (or dash)
+The flag terminator needs to be used to stop the app from attempting to parse the subsequent arguments as flags:
+
+```
+yq w -- my.path -3
+```
+
+will output
+```yaml
+my:
+  path: -3
+```
+
+{!snippets/niche.md!}
--- a/pkg/marshal/json_converter.go
+++ b/pkg/marshal/json_converter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package marshal
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+
+	yaml "github.com/mikefarah/yaml/v2"
+)
+
+type JsonConverter interface {
+	JsonToString(context interface{}) (string, error)
+}
+
+type jsonConverter struct{}
+
+func NewJsonConverter() JsonConverter {
+	return &jsonConverter{}
+}
+
+func (j *jsonConverter) JsonToString(context interface{}) (string, error) {
+	out, err := json.Marshal(j.toJSON(context))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("error printing yaml as json: %v", err)
+	}
+	return string(out), nil
+}
+
+func (j *jsonConverter) toJSON(context interface{}) interface{} {
+	switch context := context.(type) {
+	case []interface{}:
+		oldArray := context
+		newArray := make([]interface{}, len(oldArray))
+		for index, value := range oldArray {
+			newArray[index] = j.toJSON(value)
+		}
+		return newArray
+	case yaml.MapSlice:
+		oldMap := context
+		newMap := make(map[string]interface{})
+		for _, entry := range oldMap {
+			if str, ok := entry.Key.(string); ok {
+				newMap[str] = j.toJSON(entry.Value)
+			} else if i, ok := entry.Key.(int); ok {
+				newMap[strconv.Itoa(i)] = j.toJSON(entry.Value)
+			} else if b, ok := entry.Key.(bool); ok {
+				newMap[strconv.FormatBool(b)] = j.toJSON(entry.Value)
+			}
+		}
+		return newMap
+	default:
+		return context
+	}
+}
--- a/pkg/marshal/json_converter_test.go
+++ b/pkg/marshal/json_converter_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package marshal
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2/test"
+)
+
+func TestJsonToString(t *testing.T) {
+	var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+	got, _ := NewJsonConverter().JsonToString(data)
+	test.AssertResult(t, "{\"b\":{\"c\":2}}", got)
+}
+
+func TestJsonToString_withIntKey(t *testing.T) {
+	var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  2: c
+`)
+	got, _ := NewJsonConverter().JsonToString(data)
+	test.AssertResult(t, `{"b":{"2":"c"}}`, got)
+}
+
+func TestJsonToString_withBoolKey(t *testing.T) {
+	var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  false: c
+`)
+	got, _ := NewJsonConverter().JsonToString(data)
+	test.AssertResult(t, `{"b":{"false":"c"}}`, got)
+}
+
+func TestJsonToString_withArray(t *testing.T) {
+	var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  - item: one
+  - item: two
+`)
+	got, _ := NewJsonConverter().JsonToString(data)
+	test.AssertResult(t, "{\"b\":[{\"item\":\"one\"},{\"item\":\"two\"}]}", got)
+}
--- a/pkg/marshal/yaml_converter.go
+++ b/pkg/marshal/yaml_converter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package marshal
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	yaml "github.com/mikefarah/yaml/v2"
+	errors "github.com/pkg/errors"
+)
+
+type YamlConverter interface {
+	YamlToString(context interface{}, trimOutput bool) (string, error)
+}
+
+type yamlConverter struct{}
+
+func NewYamlConverter() YamlConverter {
+	return &yamlConverter{}
+}
+
+func (y *yamlConverter) YamlToString(context interface{}, trimOutput bool) (string, error) {
+	switch context := context.(type) {
+	case string:
+		return context, nil
+	default:
+		return y.marshalContext(context, trimOutput)
+	}
+}
+
+func (y *yamlConverter) marshalContext(context interface{}, trimOutput bool) (string, error) {
+	out, err := yaml.Marshal(context)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", errors.Wrap(err, "error printing yaml")
+	}
+
+	outStr := string(out)
+	// trim the trailing new line as it's easier for a script to add
+	// it in if required than to remove it
+	if trimOutput {
+		return strings.Trim(outStr, "\n "), nil
+	}
+	return outStr, nil
+}
--- a/pkg/marshal/yaml_converter_test.go
+++ b/pkg/marshal/yaml_converter_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package marshal
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2/test"
+)
+
+func TestYamlToString(t *testing.T) {
+	var raw = `b:
+  c: 2
+`
+	var data = test.ParseData(raw)
+	got, _ := NewYamlConverter().YamlToString(data, false)
+	test.AssertResult(t, raw, got)
+}
+
+func TestYamlToString_withTrim(t *testing.T) {
+	var raw = `b:
+  c: 2`
+	var data = test.ParseData(raw)
+	got, _ := NewYamlConverter().YamlToString(data, true)
+	test.AssertResult(t, raw, got)
+}
+
+func TestYamlToString_withIntKey(t *testing.T) {
+	var raw = `b:
+  2: c
+`
+	var data = test.ParseData(raw)
+	got, _ := NewYamlConverter().YamlToString(data, false)
+	test.AssertResult(t, raw, got)
+}
+
+func TestYamlToString_withBoolKey(t *testing.T) {
+	var raw = `b:
+  false: c
+`
+	var data = test.ParseData(raw)
+	got, _ := NewYamlConverter().YamlToString(data, false)
+	test.AssertResult(t, raw, got)
+}
+
+func TestYamlToString_withArray(t *testing.T) {
+	var raw = `b:
+- item: one
+- item: two
+`
+	var data = test.ParseData(raw)
+	got, _ := NewYamlConverter().YamlToString(data, false)
+	test.AssertResult(t, raw, got)
+}
--- a/pkg/yqlib/data_navigator.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/data_navigator.go
@@ -1,258 +1,376 @@
 package yqlib

 import (
+	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"

-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+	yaml "github.com/mikefarah/yaml/v2"
+	logging "gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1"
 )

 type DataNavigator interface {
-	Traverse(value *yaml.Node, path []string) error
+	ReadChildValue(child interface{}, remainingPaths []string) (interface{}, error)
+	UpdatedChildValue(child interface{}, remainingPaths []string, value interface{}) interface{}
+	DeleteChildValue(child interface{}, remainingPaths []string) (interface{}, error)
 }

 type navigator struct {
-	navigationStrategy NavigationStrategy
+	log *logging.Logger
 }

-func NewDataNavigator(NavigationStrategy NavigationStrategy) DataNavigator {
+func NewDataNavigator(l *logging.Logger) DataNavigator {
 	return &navigator{
-		navigationStrategy: NavigationStrategy,
+		log: l,
 	}
 }

-func (n *navigator) Traverse(value *yaml.Node, path []string) error {
-	realValue := value
-	emptyArray := make([]interface{}, 0)
-	if realValue.Kind == yaml.DocumentNode {
-		log.Debugf("its a document! returning the first child")
-		return n.doTraverse(value.Content[0], "", path, emptyArray)
+func (n *navigator) ReadChildValue(child interface{}, remainingPaths []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	if len(remainingPaths) == 0 {
+		return child, nil
 	}
-	return n.doTraverse(value, "", path, emptyArray)
+	return n.recurse(child, remainingPaths[0], remainingPaths[1:])
 }

-func (n *navigator) doTraverse(value *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}) error {
-
-	if value.Kind == yaml.ScalarNode {
-		return n.navigationStrategy.Visit(NewNodeContext(value, head, tail, pathStack))
+func (n *navigator) UpdatedChildValue(child interface{}, remainingPaths []string, value interface{}) interface{} {
+	if len(remainingPaths) == 0 {
+		return value
 	}
+	n.log.Debugf("UpdatedChildValue for child %v with path %v to set value %v", child, remainingPaths, value)
+	n.log.Debugf("type of child is %v", reflect.TypeOf(child))

-	log.Debug("head %v", head)
-	DebugNode(value)
-
-	var errorDeepSplatting error
-	if head == "**" {
-		if len(pathStack) == 0 || pathStack[len(pathStack)-1] != "<<" {
-			errorDeepSplatting = n.recurse(value, head, tail, pathStack)
+	switch child := child.(type) {
+	case nil:
+		if remainingPaths[0] == "+" || remainingPaths[0] == "*" {
+			return n.writeArray(child, remainingPaths, value)
 		}
-		// ignore errors here, we are deep splatting so we may accidently give a string key
-		// to an array sequence
-		if len(tail) > 0 {
-			_ = n.recurse(value, tail[0], tail[1:], pathStack)
+	case []interface{}:
+		_, nextIndexErr := strconv.ParseInt(remainingPaths[0], 10, 64)
+		arrayCommand := nextIndexErr == nil || remainingPaths[0] == "+" || remainingPaths[0] == "*"
+		if arrayCommand {
+			return n.writeArray(child, remainingPaths, value)
 		}
-		return errorDeepSplatting
 	}
-
-	if len(tail) > 0 {
-		log.Debugf("diving into %v", tail[0])
-		DebugNode(value)
-		return n.recurse(value, tail[0], tail[1:], pathStack)
-	}
-	return n.navigationStrategy.Visit(NewNodeContext(value, head, tail, pathStack))
+	return n.writeMap(child, remainingPaths, value)
 }

-func (n *navigator) getOrReplace(original *yaml.Node, expectedKind yaml.Kind) *yaml.Node {
-	if original.Kind != expectedKind {
-		log.Debug("wanted %v but it was %v, overriding", expectedKind, original.Kind)
-		return &yaml.Node{Kind: expectedKind}
+func (n *navigator) DeleteChildValue(child interface{}, remainingPaths []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	n.log.Debugf("DeleteChildValue for %v for %v\n", remainingPaths, child)
+	if len(remainingPaths) == 0 {
+		return child, nil
 	}
-	return original
+	var head = remainingPaths[0]
+	var tail = remainingPaths[1:]
+	switch child := child.(type) {
+	case yaml.MapSlice:
+		return n.deleteMap(child, remainingPaths)
+	case []interface{}:
+		if head == "*" {
+			return n.deleteArraySplat(child, tail)
+		}
+		index, err := strconv.ParseInt(head, 10, 64)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error accessing array: %v", err)
+		}
+		return n.deleteArray(child, remainingPaths, index)
+	}
+	return child, nil
 }

-func (n *navigator) recurse(value *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}) error {
-	log.Debug("recursing, processing %v, pathStack %v", head, pathStackToString(pathStack))
-	switch value.Kind {
-	case yaml.MappingNode:
-		log.Debug("its a map with %v entries", len(value.Content)/2)
-		return n.recurseMap(value, head, tail, pathStack)
-	case yaml.SequenceNode:
-		log.Debug("its a sequence of %v things!", len(value.Content))
-
-		var index, errorParsingIndex = strconv.ParseInt(head, 10, 64) // nolint
-		if errorParsingIndex == nil {
-			return n.recurseArray(value, index, head, tail, pathStack)
-		} else if head == "+" {
-			return n.appendArray(value, head, tail, pathStack)
+func (n *navigator) recurse(value interface{}, head string, tail []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	switch value := value.(type) {
+	case []interface{}:
+		if head == "*" {
+			return n.readArraySplat(value, tail)
 		}
-		return n.splatArray(value, head, tail, pathStack)
-
-	case yaml.AliasNode:
-		log.Debug("its an alias!")
-		DebugNode(value.Alias)
-		if n.navigationStrategy.FollowAlias(NewNodeContext(value, head, tail, pathStack)) {
-
-			if value.Alias.Kind == yaml.ScalarNode {
-				log.Debug("alias to a scalar")
-				return n.navigationStrategy.Visit(NewNodeContext(value.Alias, head, tail, pathStack))
-			} else {
-				log.Debug("following the alias")
-				return n.recurse(value.Alias, head, tail, pathStack)
-			}
+		index, err := strconv.ParseInt(head, 10, 64)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error accessing array: %v", err)
 		}
-		return nil
+		return n.readArray(value, index, tail)
+	case yaml.MapSlice:
+		return n.readMap(value, head, tail)
 	default:
-		return nil
+		return nil, nil
 	}
 }

-func (n *navigator) recurseMap(value *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}) error {
-	traversedEntry := false
-	errorVisiting := n.visitMatchingEntries(value, head, tail, pathStack, func(contents []*yaml.Node, indexInMap int) error {
-		log.Debug("recurseMap: visitMatchingEntries for %v", contents[indexInMap].Value)
-		n.navigationStrategy.DebugVisitedNodes()
-		newPathStack := append(pathStack, contents[indexInMap].Value)
-		log.Debug("should I traverse? head: %v, path: %v", head, pathStackToString(newPathStack))
-		DebugNode(value)
-		if n.navigationStrategy.ShouldTraverse(NewNodeContext(contents[indexInMap+1], head, tail, newPathStack), contents[indexInMap].Value) {
-			log.Debug("recurseMap: Going to traverse")
-			traversedEntry = true
-			// contents[indexInMap+1] = n.getOrReplace(contents[indexInMap+1], guessKind(head, tail, contents[indexInMap+1].Kind))
-			errorTraversing := n.doTraverse(contents[indexInMap+1], head, tail, newPathStack)
-			log.Debug("recurseMap: Finished traversing")
-			n.navigationStrategy.DebugVisitedNodes()
-			return errorTraversing
-		} else {
-			log.Debug("nope not traversing")
-		}
-		return nil
-	})
-
-	if errorVisiting != nil {
-		return errorVisiting
+func (n *navigator) matchesKey(key string, actual interface{}) bool {
+	var actualString = fmt.Sprintf("%v", actual)
+	var prefixMatch = strings.TrimSuffix(key, "*")
+	if prefixMatch != key {
+		return strings.HasPrefix(actualString, prefixMatch)
 	}
-
-	if traversedEntry || n.navigationStrategy.GetPathParser().IsPathExpression(head) || !n.navigationStrategy.AutoCreateMap(NewNodeContext(value, head, tail, pathStack)) {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	mapEntryKey := yaml.Node{Value: head, Kind: yaml.ScalarNode}
-	value.Content = append(value.Content, &mapEntryKey)
-	mapEntryValue := yaml.Node{Kind: guessKind(head, tail, 0)}
-	value.Content = append(value.Content, &mapEntryValue)
-	log.Debug("adding new node %v", head)
-	return n.doTraverse(&mapEntryValue, head, tail, append(pathStack, head))
+	return actualString == key
 }

-// need to pass the node in, as it may be aliased
-type mapVisitorFn func(contents []*yaml.Node, index int) error
-
-func (n *navigator) visitDirectMatchingEntries(node *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}, visit mapVisitorFn) error {
-	var contents = node.Content
-	for index := 0; index < len(contents); index = index + 2 {
-		content := contents[index]
-
-		log.Debug("index %v, checking %v, %v", index, content.Value, content.Tag)
-		n.navigationStrategy.DebugVisitedNodes()
-		errorVisiting := visit(contents, index)
-		if errorVisiting != nil {
-			return errorVisiting
+func (n *navigator) entriesInSlice(context yaml.MapSlice, key string) []*yaml.MapItem {
+	var matches = make([]*yaml.MapItem, 0)
+	for idx := range context {
+		var entry = &context[idx]
+		if n.matchesKey(key, entry.Key) {
+			matches = append(matches, entry)
 		}
 	}
-	return nil
+	return matches
 }

-func (n *navigator) visitMatchingEntries(node *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}, visit mapVisitorFn) error {
-	var contents = node.Content
-	log.Debug("visitMatchingEntries %v", head)
-	DebugNode(node)
-	// value.Content is a concatenated array of key, value,
-	// so keys are in the even indexes, values in odd.
-	// merge aliases are defined first, but we only want to traverse them
-	// if we don't find a match directly on this node first.
-	errorVisitedDirectEntries := n.visitDirectMatchingEntries(node, head, tail, pathStack, visit)
-
-	if errorVisitedDirectEntries != nil || !n.navigationStrategy.FollowAlias(NewNodeContext(node, head, tail, pathStack)) {
-		return errorVisitedDirectEntries
+func (n *navigator) getMapSlice(context interface{}) yaml.MapSlice {
+	var mapSlice yaml.MapSlice
+	switch context := context.(type) {
+	case yaml.MapSlice:
+		mapSlice = context
+	default:
+		mapSlice = make(yaml.MapSlice, 0)
 	}
-	return n.visitAliases(contents, head, tail, pathStack, visit)
+	return mapSlice
 }

-func (n *navigator) visitAliases(contents []*yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}, visit mapVisitorFn) error {
-	// merge aliases are defined first, but we only want to traverse them
-	// if we don't find a match on this node first.
-	// traverse them backwards so that the last alias overrides the preceding.
-	// a node can either be
-	// an alias to one other node (e.g. <<: *blah)
-	// or a sequence of aliases   (e.g. <<: [*blah, *foo])
-	log.Debug("checking for aliases, head: %v, pathstack: %v", head, pathStackToString(pathStack))
-	for index := len(contents) - 2; index >= 0; index = index - 2 {
+func (n *navigator) getArray(context interface{}) (array []interface{}, ok bool) {
+	switch context := context.(type) {
+	case []interface{}:
+		array = context
+		ok = true
+	default:
+		array = make([]interface{}, 0)
+		ok = false
+	}
+	return
+}

-		if contents[index+1].Kind == yaml.AliasNode && contents[index].Value == "<<" {
-			valueNode := contents[index+1]
-			log.Debug("found an alias")
-			DebugNode(contents[index])
-			DebugNode(valueNode)
+func (n *navigator) writeMap(context interface{}, paths []string, value interface{}) interface{} {
+	n.log.Debugf("writeMap with path %v for %v to set value %v\n", paths, context, value)

-			errorInAlias := n.visitMatchingEntries(valueNode.Alias, head, tail, pathStack, visit)
-			if errorInAlias != nil {
-				return errorInAlias
-			}
-		} else if contents[index+1].Kind == yaml.SequenceNode {
-			// could be an array of aliases...
-			errorVisitingAliasSeq := n.visitAliasSequence(contents[index+1].Content, head, tail, pathStack, visit)
-			if errorVisitingAliasSeq != nil {
-				return errorVisitingAliasSeq
-			}
+	mapSlice := n.getMapSlice(context)
+
+	if len(paths) == 0 {
+		return context
+	}
+
+	children := n.entriesInSlice(mapSlice, paths[0])
+
+	if len(children) == 0 && paths[0] == "*" {
+		n.log.Debugf("\tNo matches, return map as is")
+		return context
+	}
+
+	if len(children) == 0 {
+		newChild := yaml.MapItem{Key: paths[0]}
+		mapSlice = append(mapSlice, newChild)
+		children = n.entriesInSlice(mapSlice, paths[0])
+		n.log.Debugf("\tAppended child at %v for mapSlice %v\n", paths[0], mapSlice)
+	}
+
+	remainingPaths := paths[1:]
+	for _, child := range children {
+		child.Value = n.UpdatedChildValue(child.Value, remainingPaths, value)
+	}
+	n.log.Debugf("\tReturning mapSlice %v\n", mapSlice)
+	return mapSlice
+}
+
+func (n *navigator) writeArray(context interface{}, paths []string, value interface{}) []interface{} {
+	n.log.Debugf("writeArray with path %v for %v to set value %v\n", paths, context, value)
+	array, _ := n.getArray(context)
+
+	if len(paths) == 0 {
+		return array
+	}
+
+	n.log.Debugf("\tarray %v\n", array)
+
+	rawIndex := paths[0]
+	remainingPaths := paths[1:]
+	var index int64
+	// the append array indicator
+	if rawIndex == "+" {
+		index = int64(len(array))
+	} else if rawIndex == "*" {
+		for index, oldChild := range array {
+			array[index] = n.UpdatedChildValue(oldChild, remainingPaths, value)
 		}
+		return array
+	} else {
+		index, _ = strconv.ParseInt(rawIndex, 10, 64) // nolint
+		// writeArray is only called by UpdatedChildValue which handles parsing the
+		// index, as such this renders this dead code.
 	}
-	return nil
+
+	for index >= int64(len(array)) {
+		array = append(array, nil)
+	}
+	currentChild := array[index]
+
+	n.log.Debugf("\tcurrentChild %v\n", currentChild)
+
+	array[index] = n.UpdatedChildValue(currentChild, remainingPaths, value)
+	n.log.Debugf("\tReturning array %v\n", array)
+	return array
 }

-func (n *navigator) visitAliasSequence(possibleAliasArray []*yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}, visit mapVisitorFn) error {
-	// need to search this backwards too, so that aliases defined last override the preceding.
-	for aliasIndex := len(possibleAliasArray) - 1; aliasIndex >= 0; aliasIndex = aliasIndex - 1 {
-		child := possibleAliasArray[aliasIndex]
-		if child.Kind == yaml.AliasNode {
-			log.Debug("found an alias")
-			DebugNode(child)
-			errorInAlias := n.visitMatchingEntries(child.Alias, head, tail, pathStack, visit)
-			if errorInAlias != nil {
-				return errorInAlias
-			}
+func (n *navigator) readMap(context yaml.MapSlice, head string, tail []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	n.log.Debugf("readingMap %v with key %v\n", context, head)
+	if head == "*" {
+		return n.readMapSplat(context, tail)
+	}
+
+	entries := n.entriesInSlice(context, head)
+	if len(entries) == 1 {
+		return n.calculateValue(entries[0].Value, tail)
+	} else if len(entries) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	var errInIdx error
+	values := make([]interface{}, len(entries))
+	for idx, entry := range entries {
+		values[idx], errInIdx = n.calculateValue(entry.Value, tail)
+		if errInIdx != nil {
+			n.log.Errorf("Error updating index %v in %v", idx, context)
+			return nil, errInIdx
 		}
+
 	}
-	return nil
+	return values, nil
 }

-func (n *navigator) splatArray(value *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}) error {
-	for index, childValue := range value.Content {
-		log.Debug("processing")
-		DebugNode(childValue)
-		childValue = n.getOrReplace(childValue, guessKind(head, tail, childValue.Kind))
-
-		newPathStack := append(pathStack, index)
-		if n.navigationStrategy.ShouldTraverse(NewNodeContext(childValue, head, tail, newPathStack), childValue.Value) {
-			var err = n.doTraverse(childValue, head, tail, newPathStack)
+func (n *navigator) readMapSplat(context yaml.MapSlice, tail []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	var newArray = make([]interface{}, len(context))
+	var i = 0
+	for _, entry := range context {
+		if len(tail) > 0 {
+			val, err := n.recurse(entry.Value, tail[0], tail[1:])
 			if err != nil {
-				return err
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			newArray[i] = val
+		} else {
+			newArray[i] = entry.Value
+		}
+		i++
+	}
+	return newArray, nil
+}
+
+func (n *navigator) readArray(array []interface{}, head int64, tail []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	if head >= int64(len(array)) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	value := array[head]
+	return n.calculateValue(value, tail)
+}
+
+func (n *navigator) readArraySplat(array []interface{}, tail []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	var newArray = make([]interface{}, len(array))
+	for index, value := range array {
+		val, err := n.calculateValue(value, tail)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		newArray[index] = val
+	}
+	return newArray, nil
+}
+
+func (n *navigator) calculateValue(value interface{}, tail []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	if len(tail) > 0 {
+		return n.recurse(value, tail[0], tail[1:])
+	}
+	return value, nil
+}
+
+func (n *navigator) deleteMap(context interface{}, paths []string) (yaml.MapSlice, error) {
+	n.log.Debugf("deleteMap for %v for %v\n", paths, context)
+
+	mapSlice := n.getMapSlice(context)
+
+	if len(paths) == 0 {
+		return mapSlice, nil
+	}
+
+	var index int
+	var child yaml.MapItem
+	for index, child = range mapSlice {
+		if n.matchesKey(paths[0], child.Key) {
+			n.log.Debugf("\tMatched [%v] with [%v] at index %v", paths[0], child.Key, index)
+			var badDelete error
+			mapSlice, badDelete = n.deleteEntryInMap(mapSlice, child, index, paths)
+			if badDelete != nil {
+				return nil, badDelete
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	return nil
+
+	return mapSlice, nil
+
 }

-func (n *navigator) appendArray(value *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}) error {
-	var newNode = yaml.Node{Kind: guessKind(head, tail, 0)}
-	value.Content = append(value.Content, &newNode)
-	log.Debug("appending a new node, %v", value.Content)
-	return n.doTraverse(&newNode, head, tail, append(pathStack, len(value.Content)-1))
-}
+func (n *navigator) deleteEntryInMap(original yaml.MapSlice, child yaml.MapItem, index int, paths []string) (yaml.MapSlice, error) {
+	remainingPaths := paths[1:]

-func (n *navigator) recurseArray(value *yaml.Node, index int64, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}) error {
-	for int64(len(value.Content)) <= index {
-		value.Content = append(value.Content, &yaml.Node{Kind: guessKind(head, tail, 0)})
+	var newSlice yaml.MapSlice
+	if len(remainingPaths) > 0 {
+		newChild := yaml.MapItem{Key: child.Key}
+		var errorDeleting error
+		newChild.Value, errorDeleting = n.DeleteChildValue(child.Value, remainingPaths)
+		if errorDeleting != nil {
+			return nil, errorDeleting
+		}
+
+		newSlice = make(yaml.MapSlice, len(original))
+		for i := range original {
+			item := original[i]
+			if i == index {
+				item = newChild
+			}
+			newSlice[i] = item
+		}
+	} else {
+		// Delete item from slice at index
+		newSlice = append(original[:index], original[index+1:]...)
+		n.log.Debugf("\tDeleted item index %d from original", index)
 	}

-	value.Content[index] = n.getOrReplace(value.Content[index], guessKind(head, tail, value.Content[index].Kind))
-
-	return n.doTraverse(value.Content[index], head, tail, append(pathStack, index))
+	n.log.Debugf("\tReturning original %v\n", original)
+	return newSlice, nil
+}
+
+func (n *navigator) deleteArraySplat(array []interface{}, tail []string) (interface{}, error) {
+	n.log.Debugf("deleteArraySplat for %v for %v\n", tail, array)
+	var newArray = make([]interface{}, len(array))
+	for index, value := range array {
+		val, err := n.DeleteChildValue(value, tail)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		newArray[index] = val
+	}
+	return newArray, nil
+}
+
+func (n *navigator) deleteArray(array []interface{}, paths []string, index int64) (interface{}, error) {
+	n.log.Debugf("deleteArray for %v for %v\n", paths, array)
+
+	if index >= int64(len(array)) {
+		return array, nil
+	}
+
+	remainingPaths := paths[1:]
+	if len(remainingPaths) > 0 {
+		// recurse into the array element at index
+		var errorDeleting error
+		array[index], errorDeleting = n.deleteMap(array[index], remainingPaths)
+		if errorDeleting != nil {
+			return nil, errorDeleting
+		}
+
+	} else {
+		// Delete the array element at index
+		array = append(array[:index], array[index+1:]...)
+		n.log.Debugf("\tDeleted item index %d from array, leaving %v", index, array)
+	}
+
+	n.log.Debugf("\tReturning array: %v\n", array)
+	return array, nil
 }
--- a/pkg/yqlib/data_navigator_test.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/data_navigator_test.go
@@ -1 +1,397 @@
 package yqlib
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2/test"
+	logging "gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1"
+)
+
+func TestDataNavigator(t *testing.T) {
+	var log = logging.MustGetLogger("yq")
+	subject := NewDataNavigator(log)
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_simple", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "c"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, 2, got)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_numberKey", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+200: things
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"200"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, "things", got)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_splat", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+mapSplat:
+  item1: things
+  item2: whatever
+  otherThing: cat
+`)
+		res, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"mapSplat", "*"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[things whatever cat]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", res))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_prefixSplat", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+mapSplat:
+  item1: things
+  item2: whatever
+  otherThing: cat
+`)
+		res, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"mapSplat", "item*"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[things whatever]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", res))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_deep_splat", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+mapSplatDeep:
+  item1:
+    cats: bananas
+  item2:
+    cats: apples
+`)
+
+		res, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"mapSplatDeep", "*", "cats"})
+		result := res.([]interface{})
+		var actual = []string{result[0].(string), result[1].(string)}
+		sort.Strings(actual)
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[apples bananas]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", actual))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_key_doesnt_exist", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "x", "f", "c"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, nil, got)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_recurse_against_string", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+a: cat
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"a", "b"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, nil, got)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_with_array", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  d:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "1"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, 4, got)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_with_array_and_bad_index", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  d:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+`)
+		_, err := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "x"})
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Fatal("Expected error due to invalid path")
+		}
+		expectedOutput := `error accessing array: strconv.ParseInt: parsing "x": invalid syntax`
+		test.AssertResult(t, expectedOutput, err.Error())
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_with_mapsplat_array_and_bad_index", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  d:
+    e:
+      - 3
+      - 4
+    f:
+      - 1
+      - 2
+`)
+		_, err := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "*", "x"})
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Fatal("Expected error due to invalid path")
+		}
+		expectedOutput := `error accessing array: strconv.ParseInt: parsing "x": invalid syntax`
+		test.AssertResult(t, expectedOutput, err.Error())
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_with_arraysplat_map_array_and_bad_index", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  d:
+    - names:
+        - fred
+        - smith
+    - names:
+        - sam
+        - bo
+`)
+		_, err := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "*", "names", "x"})
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Fatal("Expected error due to invalid path")
+		}
+		expectedOutput := `error accessing array: strconv.ParseInt: parsing "x": invalid syntax`
+		test.AssertResult(t, expectedOutput, err.Error())
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_with_array_out_of_bounds", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  d:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "3"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, nil, got)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_with_array_out_of_bounds_by_1", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  d:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "2"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, nil, got)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestReadMap_with_array_splat", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+e:
+  -
+    name: Fred
+    thing: cat
+  -
+    name: Sam
+    thing: dog
+`)
+		got, _ := subject.ReadChildValue(data, []string{"e", "*", "name"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[Fred Sam]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", got))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_really_simple", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b: 2
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b"}, "4")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b 4}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_simple", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "c"}, "4")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b [{c 4}]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_new", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d"}, "4")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b [{c 2} {d 4}]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_new_deep", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "f"}, "4")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b [{c 2} {d [{f 4}]}]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_array", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  - aa
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "0"}, "bb")
+
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b [bb]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_new_array", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "0"}, "4")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b [{c 2} {0 4}]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_new_array_deep", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+a: apple
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "+", "c"}, "4")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{a apple} {b [[{c 4}]]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_new_map_array_deep", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "d", "+"}, "4")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b [{c 2} {d [4]}]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_add_to_array", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  - aa
+`)
+
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b", "1"}, "bb")
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b [aa bb]}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWrite_with_no_tail", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+  c: 2
+`)
+		updated := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{"b"}, "4")
+
+		test.AssertResult(t, "[{b 4}]", fmt.Sprintf("%v", updated))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWriteMap_no_paths", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b: 5
+`)
+		var new = test.ParseData(`
+c: 4
+`)
+		result := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{}, new)
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", new), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestWriteArray_no_paths", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = make([]interface{}, 1)
+		data[0] = "mike"
+		var new = test.ParseData(`
+c: 4
+`)
+		result := subject.UpdatedChildValue(data, []string{}, new)
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", new), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestDelete_MapItem", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+a: 123
+b: 456
+`)
+		var expected = test.ParseData(`
+b: 456
+`)
+
+		result, _ := subject.DeleteChildValue(data, []string{"a"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", expected), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	// Ensure deleting an index into a string does nothing
+	t.Run("TestDelete_index_to_string", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+a: mystring
+`)
+		result, _ := subject.DeleteChildValue(data, []string{"a", "0"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", data), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestDelete_list_index", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+a: [3, 4]
+`)
+		var expected = test.ParseData(`
+a: [3]
+`)
+		result, _ := subject.DeleteChildValue(data, []string{"a", "1"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", expected), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestDelete_list_index_beyond_bounds", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+a: [3, 4]
+`)
+		result, _ := subject.DeleteChildValue(data, []string{"a", "5"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", data), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestDelete_list_index_out_of_bounds_by_1", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+a: [3, 4]
+`)
+		result, _ := subject.DeleteChildValue(data, []string{"a", "2"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", data), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestDelete_no_paths", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+a: [3, 4]
+b:
+  - name: test
+`)
+		result, _ := subject.DeleteChildValue(data, []string{})
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", data), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("TestDelete_array_map_item", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+- name: fred
+  value: blah
+- name: john
+  value: test
+`)
+		var expected = test.ParseData(`
+b:
+- value: blah
+- name: john
+  value: test
+`)
+		result, _ := subject.DeleteChildValue(data, []string{"b", "0", "name"})
+		test.AssertResult(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", expected), fmt.Sprintf("%v", result))
+	})
+}
--- a/pkg/yqlib/delete_navigation_strategy.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/delete_navigation_strategy.go
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-package yqlib
-
-import (
-	"strconv"
-
-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
-)
-
-func DeleteNavigationStrategy(pathElementToDelete string) NavigationStrategy {
-	parser := NewPathParser()
-	return &NavigationStrategyImpl{
-		visitedNodes: []*NodeContext{},
-		pathParser:   parser,
-		followAlias: func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-			return false
-		},
-		autoCreateMap: func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-			return false
-		},
-		visit: func(nodeContext NodeContext) error {
-			node := nodeContext.Node
-			log.Debug("need to find and delete %v in here", pathElementToDelete)
-			DebugNode(node)
-			if node.Kind == yaml.SequenceNode {
-				newContent := deleteFromArray(parser, node.Content, nodeContext.PathStack, pathElementToDelete)
-				node.Content = newContent
-			} else if node.Kind == yaml.MappingNode {
-				node.Content = deleteFromMap(parser, node.Content, nodeContext.PathStack, pathElementToDelete)
-			}
-			return nil
-		},
-	}
-}
-func deleteFromMap(pathParser PathParser, contents []*yaml.Node, pathStack []interface{}, pathElementToDelete string) []*yaml.Node {
-	newContents := make([]*yaml.Node, 0)
-	for index := 0; index < len(contents); index = index + 2 {
-		keyNode := contents[index]
-		valueNode := contents[index+1]
-		if !pathParser.MatchesNextPathElement(NewNodeContext(keyNode, pathElementToDelete, []string{}, pathStack), keyNode.Value) {
-			log.Debug("adding node %v", keyNode.Value)
-			newContents = append(newContents, keyNode, valueNode)
-		} else {
-			log.Debug("skipping node %v", keyNode.Value)
-		}
-	}
-	return newContents
-}
-
-func deleteFromArray(pathParser PathParser, content []*yaml.Node, pathStack []interface{}, pathElementToDelete string) []*yaml.Node {
-
-	var indexToDelete, err = strconv.ParseInt(pathElementToDelete, 10, 64) // nolint
-	if err == nil {
-		return deleteIndexInArray(content, indexToDelete)
-	}
-	log.Debug("%v is not a numeric index, finding matching patterns", pathElementToDelete)
-	var newArray = make([]*yaml.Node, 0)
-
-	for _, childValue := range content {
-		if !pathParser.MatchesNextPathElement(NewNodeContext(childValue, pathElementToDelete, []string{}, pathStack), childValue.Value) {
-			newArray = append(newArray, childValue)
-		}
-	}
-	return newArray
-}
-
-func deleteIndexInArray(content []*yaml.Node, index int64) []*yaml.Node {
-	log.Debug("deleting index %v in array", index)
-	if index >= int64(len(content)) {
-		log.Debug("index %v is greater than content length %v", index, len(content))
-		return content
-	}
-	return append(content[:index], content[index+1:]...)
-}
--- a/pkg/yqlib/encoder.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/encoder.go
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-package yqlib
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"io"
-
-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
-)
-
-type Encoder interface {
-	Encode(node *yaml.Node) error
-}
-
-type yamlEncoder struct {
-	encoder *yaml.Encoder
-}
-
-func NewYamlEncoder(destination io.Writer, indent int) Encoder {
-	var encoder = yaml.NewEncoder(destination)
-	if indent < 0 {
-		indent = 0
-	}
-	encoder.SetIndent(indent)
-	return &yamlEncoder{encoder}
-}
-
-func (ye *yamlEncoder) Encode(node *yaml.Node) error {
-	return ye.encoder.Encode(node)
-}
-
-type jsonEncoder struct {
-	encoder *json.Encoder
-}
-
-func NewJsonEncoder(destination io.Writer, prettyPrint bool, indent int) Encoder {
-	var encoder = json.NewEncoder(destination)
-	var indentString = ""
-
-	for index := 0; index < indent; index++ {
-		indentString = indentString + " "
-	}
-	if prettyPrint {
-		encoder.SetIndent("", indentString)
-	}
-	return &jsonEncoder{encoder}
-}
-
-func (je *jsonEncoder) Encode(node *yaml.Node) error {
-	var dataBucket interface{}
-	errorDecoding := node.Decode(&dataBucket)
-	if errorDecoding != nil {
-		return errorDecoding
-	}
-	return je.encoder.Encode(dataBucket)
-}
--- a/pkg/yqlib/filter_matching_node_navigation_strategy.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/filter_matching_node_navigation_strategy.go
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-package yqlib
-
-func FilterMatchingNodesNavigationStrategy(value string) NavigationStrategy {
-	return &NavigationStrategyImpl{
-		visitedNodes: []*NodeContext{},
-		pathParser:   NewPathParser(),
-		followAlias: func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-			return true
-		},
-		autoCreateMap: func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-			return false
-		},
-		visit: func(nodeContext NodeContext) error {
-			return nil
-		},
-		shouldVisitExtraFn: func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-			log.Debug("does %v match %v ? %v", nodeContext.Node.Value, value, nodeContext.Node.Value == value)
-			return matchesString(value, nodeContext.Node.Value)
-		},
-	}
-}
--- a/pkg/yqlib/lib.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/lib.go
@@ -1,157 +1,70 @@
 package yqlib

 import (
-	"bytes"
-	"fmt"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-
+	mergo "gopkg.in/imdario/mergo.v0"
 	logging "gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1"
-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
 )

-var log = logging.MustGetLogger("yq")
-
-type UpdateCommand struct {
-	Command   string
-	Path      string
-	Value     *yaml.Node
-	Overwrite bool
-}
-
-func DebugNode(value *yaml.Node) {
-	if value == nil {
-		log.Debug("-- node is nil --")
-	} else if log.IsEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG) {
-		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
-		encoder := yaml.NewEncoder(buf)
-		errorEncoding := encoder.Encode(value)
-		if errorEncoding != nil {
-			log.Error("Error debugging node, %v", errorEncoding.Error())
-		}
-		encoder.Close()
-		log.Debug("Tag: %v", value.Tag)
-		log.Debug("%v", buf.String())
-	}
-}
-
-func pathStackToString(pathStack []interface{}) string {
-	return mergePathStackToString(pathStack, false)
-}
-
-func mergePathStackToString(pathStack []interface{}, appendArrays bool) string {
-	var sb strings.Builder
-	for index, path := range pathStack {
-		switch path.(type) {
-		case int:
-			if appendArrays {
-				sb.WriteString("[+]")
-			} else {
-				sb.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("[%v]", path))
-			}
-
-		default:
-			s := fmt.Sprintf("%v", path)
-			hasDot := strings.Contains(s, ".")
-			if hasDot {
-				sb.WriteString("[")
-			}
-			sb.WriteString(s)
-			if hasDot {
-				sb.WriteString("]")
-			}
-		}
-
-		if index < len(pathStack)-1 {
-			sb.WriteString(".")
-		}
-	}
-	return sb.String()
-}
-
-func guessKind(head string, tail []string, guess yaml.Kind) yaml.Kind {
-	log.Debug("tail %v", tail)
-	if len(tail) == 0 && guess == 0 {
-		log.Debug("end of path, must be a scalar")
-		return yaml.ScalarNode
-	} else if len(tail) == 0 {
-		return guess
-	}
-
-	var _, errorParsingInt = strconv.ParseInt(tail[0], 10, 64)
-	if tail[0] == "+" || errorParsingInt == nil {
-		return yaml.SequenceNode
-	}
-	pathParser := NewPathParser()
-	if (pathParser.IsPathExpression(tail[0]) || head == "**") && (guess == yaml.SequenceNode || guess == yaml.MappingNode) {
-		return guess
-	}
-	if guess == yaml.AliasNode {
-		log.Debug("guess was an alias, okey doke.")
-		return guess
-	}
-	log.Debug("forcing a mapping node")
-	log.Debug("yaml.SequenceNode %v", guess == yaml.SequenceNode)
-	log.Debug("yaml.ScalarNode %v", guess == yaml.ScalarNode)
-	return yaml.MappingNode
-}
-
 type YqLib interface {
-	Get(rootNode *yaml.Node, path string) ([]*NodeContext, error)
-	Update(rootNode *yaml.Node, updateCommand UpdateCommand, autoCreate bool) error
-	New(path string) yaml.Node
-
-	PathStackToString(pathStack []interface{}) string
-	MergePathStackToString(pathStack []interface{}, appendArrays bool) string
+	ReadPath(dataBucket interface{}, path string) (interface{}, error)
+	WritePath(dataBucket interface{}, path string, value interface{}) interface{}
+	PrefixPath(dataBucket interface{}, prefix string) interface{}
+	DeletePath(dataBucket interface{}, path string) (interface{}, error)
+	Merge(dst interface{}, src interface{}, overwrite bool, append bool) error
 }

 type lib struct {
-	parser PathParser
+	navigator DataNavigator
+	parser    PathParser
 }

-func NewYqLib() YqLib {
+func NewYqLib(l *logging.Logger) YqLib {
 	return &lib{
-		parser: NewPathParser(),
+		navigator: NewDataNavigator(l),
+		parser:    NewPathParser(),
 	}
 }

-func (l *lib) Get(rootNode *yaml.Node, path string) ([]*NodeContext, error) {
+func (l *lib) ReadPath(dataBucket interface{}, path string) (interface{}, error) {
 	var paths = l.parser.ParsePath(path)
-	navigationStrategy := ReadNavigationStrategy()
-	navigator := NewDataNavigator(navigationStrategy)
-	error := navigator.Traverse(rootNode, paths)
-	return navigationStrategy.GetVisitedNodes(), error
-
+	return l.navigator.ReadChildValue(dataBucket, paths)
 }

-func (l *lib) PathStackToString(pathStack []interface{}) string {
-	return pathStackToString(pathStack)
-}
-
-func (l *lib) MergePathStackToString(pathStack []interface{}, appendArrays bool) string {
-	return mergePathStackToString(pathStack, appendArrays)
-}
-
-func (l *lib) New(path string) yaml.Node {
+func (l *lib) WritePath(dataBucket interface{}, path string, value interface{}) interface{} {
 	var paths = l.parser.ParsePath(path)
-	newNode := yaml.Node{Kind: guessKind("", paths, 0)}
-	return newNode
+	return l.navigator.UpdatedChildValue(dataBucket, paths, value)
 }

-func (l *lib) Update(rootNode *yaml.Node, updateCommand UpdateCommand, autoCreate bool) error {
-	log.Debugf("%v to %v", updateCommand.Command, updateCommand.Path)
-	switch updateCommand.Command {
-	case "update":
-		var paths = l.parser.ParsePath(updateCommand.Path)
-		navigator := NewDataNavigator(UpdateNavigationStrategy(updateCommand, autoCreate))
-		return navigator.Traverse(rootNode, paths)
-	case "delete":
-		var paths = l.parser.ParsePath(updateCommand.Path)
-		lastBit, newTail := paths[len(paths)-1], paths[:len(paths)-1]
-		navigator := NewDataNavigator(DeleteNavigationStrategy(lastBit))
-		return navigator.Traverse(rootNode, newTail)
-	default:
-		return fmt.Errorf("Unknown command %v", updateCommand.Command)
+func (l *lib) PrefixPath(dataBucket interface{}, prefix string) interface{} {
+	var paths = l.parser.ParsePath(prefix)
+
+	// Inverse order
+	for i := len(paths)/2 - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		opp := len(paths) - 1 - i
+		paths[i], paths[opp] = paths[opp], paths[i]
 	}

+	var mapDataBucket = dataBucket
+	for _, key := range paths {
+		singlePath := []string{key}
+		mapDataBucket = l.navigator.UpdatedChildValue(nil, singlePath, mapDataBucket)
+	}
+
+	return mapDataBucket
+}
+
+func (l *lib) DeletePath(dataBucket interface{}, path string) (interface{}, error) {
+	var paths = l.parser.ParsePath(path)
+	return l.navigator.DeleteChildValue(dataBucket, paths)
+}
+
+func (l *lib) Merge(dst interface{}, src interface{}, overwriteFlag bool, appendFlag bool) error {
+	opts := []func(*mergo.Config){}
+	if overwriteFlag {
+		opts = append(opts, mergo.WithOverride)
+	}
+	if appendFlag {
+		opts = append(opts, mergo.WithAppendSlice)
+	}
+	return mergo.Merge(dst, src, opts...)
 }
--- a/pkg/yqlib/lib_test.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/lib_test.go
@@ -1,176 +1,183 @@
 package yqlib

 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/test"
+	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2/test"
+	logging "gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1"
 )

 func TestLib(t *testing.T) {

-	subject := NewYqLib()
+	var log = logging.MustGetLogger("yq")
+	subject := NewYqLib(log)

-	t.Run("PathStackToString_Empty", func(t *testing.T) {
-		emptyArray := make([]interface{}, 0)
-		got := subject.PathStackToString(emptyArray)
-		test.AssertResult(t, ``, got)
+	t.Run("TestReadPath", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  2: c
+`)
+
+		got, _ := subject.ReadPath(data, "b.2")
+		test.AssertResult(t, `c`, got)
 	})

-	t.Run("PathStackToString", func(t *testing.T) {
-		array := make([]interface{}, 3)
-		array[0] = "a"
-		array[1] = 0
-		array[2] = "b"
-		got := subject.PathStackToString(array)
-		test.AssertResult(t, `a.[0].b`, got)
+	t.Run("TestReadPath_WithError", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  - c
+`)
+
+		_, err := subject.ReadPath(data, "b.[a]")
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Fatal("Expected error due to invalid path")
+		}
 	})

-	t.Run("MergePathStackToString", func(t *testing.T) {
-		array := make([]interface{}, 3)
-		array[0] = "a"
-		array[1] = 0
-		array[2] = "b"
-		got := subject.MergePathStackToString(array, true)
-		test.AssertResult(t, `a.[+].b`, got)
+	t.Run("TestWritePath", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  2: c
+`)
+
+		got := subject.WritePath(data, "b.3", "a")
+		test.AssertResult(t, `[{b [{2 c} {3 a}]}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", got))
 	})

-	// 	t.Run("TestReadPath_WithError", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var data = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// b:
-	//   - c
-	// `)
+	t.Run("TestPrefixPath", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  2: c
+`)

-	// 		_, err := subject.ReadPath(data, "b.[a]")
-	// 		if err == nil {
-	// 			t.Fatal("Expected error due to invalid path")
-	// 		}
-	// 	})
+		got := subject.PrefixPath(data, "a.d")
+		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a [{d [{b [{2 c}]}]}]}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", got))
+	})

-	// 	t.Run("TestWritePath", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var data = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// b:
-	//   2: c
-	// `)
+	t.Run("TestDeletePath", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  2: c
+  3: a
+`)

-	// 		got := subject.WritePath(data, "b.3", "a")
-	// 		test.AssertResult(t, `[{b [{2 c} {3 a}]}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", got))
-	// 	})
+		got, _ := subject.DeletePath(data, "b.2")
+		test.AssertResult(t, `[{b [{3 a}]}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", got))
+	})

-	// 	t.Run("TestPrefixPath", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var data = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// b:
-	//   2: c
-	// `)
+	t.Run("TestDeletePath_WithError", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var data = test.ParseData(`
+---
+b:
+  - c
+`)

-	// 		got := subject.PrefixPath(data, "a.d")
-	// 		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a [{d [{b [{2 c}]}]}]}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", got))
-	// 	})
+		_, err := subject.DeletePath(data, "b.[a]")
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Fatal("Expected error due to invalid path")
+		}
+	})

-	// 	t.Run("TestDeletePath", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var data = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// b:
-	//   2: c
-	//   3: a
-	// `)
+	t.Run("TestMerge", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var dst = test.ParseData(`
+---
+a: b
+c: d
+`)
+		var src = test.ParseData(`
+---
+a: 1
+b: 2
+`)

-	// 		got, _ := subject.DeletePath(data, "b.2")
-	// 		test.AssertResult(t, `[{b [{3 a}]}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", got))
-	// 	})
+		var mergedData = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
+		mergedData["root"] = dst
+		var mapDataBucket = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
+		mapDataBucket["root"] = src

-	// 	t.Run("TestDeletePath_WithError", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var data = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// b:
-	//   - c
-	// `)
+		err := subject.Merge(&mergedData, mapDataBucket, false, false)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal("Unexpected error")
+		}
+		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a b} {c d}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", mergedData["root"]))
+	})

-	// 		_, err := subject.DeletePath(data, "b.[a]")
-	// 		if err == nil {
-	// 			t.Fatal("Expected error due to invalid path")
-	// 		}
-	// 	})
+	t.Run("TestMerge_WithOverwrite", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var dst = test.ParseData(`
+---
+a: b
+c: d
+`)
+		var src = test.ParseData(`
+---
+a: 1
+b: 2
+`)

-	// 	t.Run("TestMerge", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var dst = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// a: b
-	// c: d
-	// `)
-	// 		var src = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// a: 1
-	// b: 2
-	// `)
+		var mergedData = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
+		mergedData["root"] = dst
+		var mapDataBucket = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
+		mapDataBucket["root"] = src

-	// 		var mergedData = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
-	// 		mergedData["root"] = dst
-	// 		var mapDataBucket = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
-	// 		mapDataBucket["root"] = src
+		err := subject.Merge(&mergedData, mapDataBucket, true, false)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal("Unexpected error")
+		}
+		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a 1} {b 2}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", mergedData["root"]))
+	})

-	// 		err := subject.Merge(&mergedData, mapDataBucket, false, false)
-	// 		if err != nil {
-	// 			t.Fatal("Unexpected error")
-	// 		}
-	// 		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a b} {c d}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", mergedData["root"]))
-	// 	})
+	t.Run("TestMerge_WithAppend", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var dst = test.ParseData(`
+---
+a: b
+c: d
+`)
+		var src = test.ParseData(`
+---
+a: 1
+b: 2
+`)

-	// 	t.Run("TestMerge_WithOverwrite", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var dst = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// a: b
-	// c: d
-	// `)
-	// 		var src = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// a: 1
-	// b: 2
-	// `)
+		var mergedData = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
+		mergedData["root"] = dst
+		var mapDataBucket = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
+		mapDataBucket["root"] = src

-	// 		var mergedData = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
-	// 		mergedData["root"] = dst
-	// 		var mapDataBucket = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
-	// 		mapDataBucket["root"] = src
+		err := subject.Merge(&mergedData, mapDataBucket, false, true)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal("Unexpected error")
+		}
+		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a b} {c d} {a 1} {b 2}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", mergedData["root"]))
+	})

-	// 		err := subject.Merge(&mergedData, mapDataBucket, true, false)
-	// 		if err != nil {
-	// 			t.Fatal("Unexpected error")
-	// 		}
-	// 		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a 1} {b 2}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", mergedData["root"]))
-	// 	})
+	t.Run("TestMerge_WithAppendAndOverwrite", func(t *testing.T) {
+		var dst = map[interface{}]interface{}{
+			"a": "initial",
+			"b": []string{"old"},
+		}
+		var src = map[interface{}]interface{}{
+			"a": "replaced",
+			"b": []string{"new"},
+		}

-	// 	t.Run("TestMerge_WithAppend", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		var dst = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// a: b
-	// c: d
-	// `)
-	// 		var src = test.ParseData(`
-	// ---
-	// a: 1
-	// b: 2
-	// `)
+		err := subject.Merge(&dst, src, true, true)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal("Unexpected error")
+		}
+		test.AssertResult(t, `map[a:replaced b:[old new]]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", dst))
+	})

-	// 		var mergedData = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
-	// 		mergedData["root"] = dst
-	// 		var mapDataBucket = make(map[interface{}]interface{})
-	// 		mapDataBucket["root"] = src
-
-	// 		err := subject.Merge(&mergedData, mapDataBucket, false, true)
-	// 		if err != nil {
-	// 			t.Fatal("Unexpected error")
-	// 		}
-	// 		test.AssertResult(t, `[{a b} {c d} {a 1} {b 2}]`, fmt.Sprintf("%v", mergedData["root"]))
-	// 	})
-
-	// 	t.Run("TestMerge_WithError", func(t *testing.T) {
-	// 		err := subject.Merge(nil, nil, false, false)
-	// 		if err == nil {
-	// 			t.Fatal("Expected error due to nil")
-	// 		}
-	// 	})
+	t.Run("TestMerge_WithError", func(t *testing.T) {
+		err := subject.Merge(nil, nil, false, false)
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Fatal("Expected error due to nil")
+		}
+	})

 }
--- a/pkg/yqlib/navigation_strategy.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/navigation_strategy.go
@@ -1,152 +0,0 @@
-package yqlib
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-
-	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
-)
-
-type NodeContext struct {
-	Node      *yaml.Node
-	Head      string
-	Tail      []string
-	PathStack []interface{}
-}
-
-func NewNodeContext(node *yaml.Node, head string, tail []string, pathStack []interface{}) NodeContext {
-	newTail := make([]string, len(tail))
-	copy(newTail, tail)
-
-	newPathStack := make([]interface{}, len(pathStack))
-	copy(newPathStack, pathStack)
-	return NodeContext{
-		Node:      node,
-		Head:      head,
-		Tail:      newTail,
-		PathStack: newPathStack,
-	}
-}
-
-type NavigationStrategy interface {
-	FollowAlias(nodeContext NodeContext) bool
-	AutoCreateMap(nodeContext NodeContext) bool
-	Visit(nodeContext NodeContext) error
-	// node key is the string value of the last element in the path stack
-	// we use it to match against the pathExpression in head.
-	ShouldTraverse(nodeContext NodeContext, nodeKey string) bool
-	GetVisitedNodes() []*NodeContext
-	DebugVisitedNodes()
-	GetPathParser() PathParser
-}
-
-type NavigationStrategyImpl struct {
-	followAlias        func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool
-	autoCreateMap      func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool
-	visit              func(nodeContext NodeContext) error
-	shouldVisitExtraFn func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool
-	visitedNodes       []*NodeContext
-	pathParser         PathParser
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) GetPathParser() PathParser {
-	return ns.pathParser
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) GetVisitedNodes() []*NodeContext {
-	return ns.visitedNodes
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) FollowAlias(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-	return ns.followAlias(nodeContext)
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) AutoCreateMap(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-	return ns.autoCreateMap(nodeContext)
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) ShouldTraverse(nodeContext NodeContext, nodeKey string) bool {
-	// we should traverse aliases (if enabled), but not visit them :/
-	if len(nodeContext.PathStack) == 0 {
-		return true
-	}
-
-	if ns.alreadyVisited(nodeContext.PathStack) {
-		return false
-	}
-
-	return (nodeKey == "<<" && ns.FollowAlias(nodeContext)) || (nodeKey != "<<" &&
-		ns.pathParser.MatchesNextPathElement(nodeContext, nodeKey))
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) shouldVisit(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-	pathStack := nodeContext.PathStack
-	if len(pathStack) == 0 {
-		return true
-	}
-	log.Debug("tail len %v", len(nodeContext.Tail))
-	// SOMETHING HERE!
-
-	if ns.alreadyVisited(pathStack) || len(nodeContext.Tail) != 0 {
-		return false
-	}
-
-	nodeKey := fmt.Sprintf("%v", pathStack[len(pathStack)-1])
-	log.Debug("nodeKey: %v, nodeContext.Head: %v", nodeKey, nodeContext.Head)
-
-	// only visit aliases if its an exact match
-	return ((nodeKey == "<<" && nodeContext.Head == "<<") || (nodeKey != "<<" &&
-		ns.pathParser.MatchesNextPathElement(nodeContext, nodeKey))) && (ns.shouldVisitExtraFn == nil || ns.shouldVisitExtraFn(nodeContext))
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) Visit(nodeContext NodeContext) error {
-	log.Debug("Visit?, %v, %v", nodeContext.Head, pathStackToString(nodeContext.PathStack))
-	DebugNode(nodeContext.Node)
-	if ns.shouldVisit(nodeContext) {
-		log.Debug("yep, visiting")
-		//  pathStack array must be
-		// copied, as append() may sometimes reuse and modify the array
-		ns.visitedNodes = append(ns.visitedNodes, &nodeContext)
-		ns.DebugVisitedNodes()
-		return ns.visit(nodeContext)
-	}
-	log.Debug("nope, skip it")
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) DebugVisitedNodes() {
-	log.Debug("Visited Nodes:")
-	for _, candidate := range ns.visitedNodes {
-		log.Debug(" - %v", pathStackToString(candidate.PathStack))
-	}
-}
-
-func (ns *NavigationStrategyImpl) alreadyVisited(pathStack []interface{}) bool {
-	log.Debug("checking already visited pathStack: %v", pathStackToString(pathStack))
-	for _, candidate := range ns.visitedNodes {
-		candidatePathStack := candidate.PathStack
-		if patchStacksMatch(candidatePathStack, pathStack) {
-			log.Debug("paths match, already seen it")
-			return true
-		}
-
-	}
-	log.Debug("never seen it before!")
-	return false
-}
-
-func patchStacksMatch(path1 []interface{}, path2 []interface{}) bool {
-	log.Debug("checking against path: %v", pathStackToString(path1))
-
-	if len(path1) != len(path2) {
-		return false
-	}
-	for index, p1Value := range path1 {
-
-		p2Value := path2[index]
-		if p1Value != p2Value {
-			return false
-		}
-	}
-	return true
-
-}
--- a/pkg/yqlib/path_parser.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/path_parser.go
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 package yqlib

-import (
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-)
-
 type PathParser interface {
 	ParsePath(path string) []string
-	MatchesNextPathElement(nodeContext NodeContext, nodeKey string) bool
-	IsPathExpression(pathElement string) bool
 }

 type pathParser struct{}
@@ -17,66 +10,7 @@ func NewPathParser() PathParser {
 	return &pathParser{}
 }

-func matchesString(expression string, value string) bool {
-	var prefixMatch = strings.TrimSuffix(expression, "*")
-	if prefixMatch != expression {
-		log.Debug("prefix match, %v", strings.HasPrefix(value, prefixMatch))
-		return strings.HasPrefix(value, prefixMatch)
-	}
-	return value == expression
-}
-
-func (p *pathParser) IsPathExpression(pathElement string) bool {
-	return pathElement == "*" || pathElement == "**" || strings.Contains(pathElement, "==")
-}
-
-/**
- * node: node that we may traverse/visit
- * head: path element expression to match against
- * tail: remaining path element expressions
- * pathStack: stack of actual paths we've matched to get to node
- * nodeKey: actual value of this nodes 'key' or index.
- */
-func (p *pathParser) MatchesNextPathElement(nodeContext NodeContext, nodeKey string) bool {
-	head := nodeContext.Head
-	if head == "**" || head == "*" {
-		return true
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(head, "==") {
-		log.Debug("ooh deep recursion time")
-		result := strings.SplitN(head, "==", 2)
-		path := strings.TrimSpace(result[0])
-		value := strings.TrimSpace(result[1])
-		log.Debug("path %v", path)
-		log.Debug("value %v", value)
-		DebugNode(nodeContext.Node)
-		navigationStrategy := FilterMatchingNodesNavigationStrategy(value)
-
-		navigator := NewDataNavigator(navigationStrategy)
-		err := navigator.Traverse(nodeContext.Node, p.ParsePath(path))
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Error("Error deep recursing - ignoring")
-			log.Error(err.Error())
-		}
-		log.Debug("done deep recursing, found %v matches", len(navigationStrategy.GetVisitedNodes()))
-		return len(navigationStrategy.GetVisitedNodes()) > 0
-	}
-
-	if head == "+" {
-		log.Debug("head is +, nodeKey is %v", nodeKey)
-		var _, err = strconv.ParseInt(nodeKey, 10, 64) // nolint
-		if err == nil {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-
-	return matchesString(head, nodeKey)
-}
-
 func (p *pathParser) ParsePath(path string) []string {
-	if path == "" {
-		return []string{}
-	}
 	return p.parsePathAccum([]string{}, path)
 }

@@ -96,12 +30,9 @@ func (p *pathParser) nextYamlPath(path string) (pathElement string, remaining st
 	case '"':
 		// e.g "a.b".blah.cat -> we need to return "a.b" and "blah.cat"
 		return p.search(path[1:], []uint8{'"'}, true)
-	case '(':
-		// e.g "a.b".blah.cat -> we need to return "a.b" and "blah.cat"
-		return p.search(path[1:], []uint8{')'}, true)
 	default:
 		// e.g "a.blah.cat" -> return "a" and "blah.cat"
-		return p.search(path[0:], []uint8{'.', '[', '"', '('}, false)
+		return p.search(path[0:], []uint8{'.', '['}, false)
 	}
 }

--- a/pkg/yqlib/path_parser_test.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/path_parser_test.go
@@ -3,18 +3,14 @@ package yqlib
 import (
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3/test"
+	"github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2/test"
 )

-var parser = NewPathParser()
-
 var parsePathsTests = []struct {
 	path          string
 	expectedPaths []string
 }{
 	{"a.b", []string{"a", "b"}},
-	{"a.b.**", []string{"a", "b", "**"}},
-	{"a.b.*", []string{"a", "b", "*"}},
 	{"a.b[0]", []string{"a", "b", "0"}},
 	{"a.b.d[+]", []string{"a", "b", "d", "+"}},
 	{"a", []string{"a"}},
@@ -26,53 +22,8 @@ var parsePathsTests = []struct {
 	{"[0]", []string{"0"}},
 }

-func TestPathParserParsePath(t *testing.T) {
+func TestParsePath(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, tt := range parsePathsTests {
-		test.AssertResultComplex(t, tt.expectedPaths, parser.ParsePath(tt.path))
+		test.AssertResultComplex(t, tt.expectedPaths, NewPathParser().ParsePath(tt.path))
 	}
 }
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementSplat(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "*"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, true, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, ""))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementDeepSplat(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "**"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, true, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, ""))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementAppendArrayValid(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "+"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, true, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, "3"))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementAppendArrayInvalid(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "+"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, false, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, "cat"))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementPrefixMatchesWhole(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "cat*"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, true, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, "cat"))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementPrefixMatchesStart(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "cat*"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, true, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, "caterpillar"))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementPrefixMismatch(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "cat*"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, false, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, "dog"))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementExactMatch(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "farahtek"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, true, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, "farahtek"))
-}
-
-func TestPathParserMatchesNextPathElementExactMismatch(t *testing.T) {
-	var node = NodeContext{Head: "farahtek"}
-	test.AssertResult(t, false, parser.MatchesNextPathElement(node, "othertek"))
-}
--- a/pkg/yqlib/read_navigation_strategy.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/read_navigation_strategy.go
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-package yqlib
-
-func ReadNavigationStrategy() NavigationStrategy {
-	return &NavigationStrategyImpl{
-		visitedNodes: []*NodeContext{},
-		pathParser:   NewPathParser(),
-		followAlias: func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-			return true
-		},
-		autoCreateMap: func(nodeContext NodeContext) bool {
-			return false
-		},
-		visit: func(nodeContext NodeContext) error {
-			return nil
-		},
-	}
-}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Mike Farah	2f9f8665dd	bolden contribute disclaimer	2020-01-13 10:21:28 +11:00
Conor Nosal	3dea1efc03	Allow merge commands to specify overwrite and append simultaneously	2020-01-13 10:17:29 +11:00
Ryan SIU	547787f3ae	#314 Fix the big int changing into float	2020-01-13 10:17:08 +11:00
Ryan SIU	3e83ff7ac8	#20 Read the top level keys only	2020-01-13 10:16:53 +11:00
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