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# Converting between formats

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See [supported file types](/v1/usage/supported-file-types.md) for a list of available formats.
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Dasel allows you to specify different input/output formats using the `-r`,`--read` and `-w`,`--write` flags.

```shell
$ echo '{"name": "Tom"}{"name": "Jim"}' | dasel -r json -w yaml .
name: Tom
---
name: Jim
```

This works well in general but you may run into issues when converting between data formats that don't typically play well together.

If you have any questions or concerns around this please raise a [discussion](https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/discussions).