---
description: yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor
---

# Yq

### Install[¶]() <a id="install"></a>

On MacOS:

```text
brew install yq
```

On Ubuntu and other Linux distros supporting `snap` packages:

```text
snap install yq
```

On Ubuntu 16.04 or higher from Debian package:

```text
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:

```text
GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/mikefarah/yq/v2
```

[View on GitHub](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq)