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Installation

Homebrew

The easiest way to get your hands on the latest version of dasel is to use homebrew:

brew install dasel

Docker

Run dasel in docker using the image ghcr.io/tomwright/dasel.

Usage

Run the docker image, passing in a dasel command with the executable excluded.

$ echo '{"name": "Tom"}' | docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/tomwright/dasel:latest -r json '.name'
"Tom"

Versioning

New image versions are built and pushed automatically as part of the CI/CD pipeline in Github actions.

Tag
Description

latest

The latest release version.

development

The latest build from master branch.

v*.*.*

The specified dasel release. E.g. v2.0.0.

ASDF

asdf plugin add dasel https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-dasel.git
asdf list all dasel
asdf install dasel <version>
asdf global dasel <version>

Nix

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.dasel

Or NixOS:

nix-env -iA nixos.dasel

Windows

Manual

Don't forget to put the binary somewhere in your PATH.

curl -sSLf "$(curl -sSLf https://api.github.com/repos/tomwright/dasel/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | grep linux_amd64 | grep -v .gz | cut -d\" -f 4)" -L -o dasel && chmod +x dasel
mv ./dasel /usr/local/bin/dasel
curl -sSLf "$(curl -sSLf https://api.github.com/repos/tomwright/dasel/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | grep -v .gz | grep darwin_amd64 | cut -d\" -f 4)" -L -o dasel && chmod +x dasel
mv ./dasel /usr/local/bin/dasel
$releases = curl -sSLf https://api.github.com/repos/tomwright/dasel/releases/latest
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri (($releases | ConvertFrom-Json).assets `
                    | Where-Object { $_.name -eq "dasel_windows_amd64.exe" } `
                    | Select-Object -ExpandProperty browser_download_url) `
                    -OutFile dasel.exe

Scoop

Use the scoop command-line installer to install dasel on windows 10.

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install dasel

Development Version

You can go install the cmd/dasel package to build and install dasel for you.

You may need to prefix the command with GO111MODULE=on in order for this to work.

go install github.com/tomwright/dasel/v2/cmd/dasel@master
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