Type

Description

The type selector can be used to return the type of the current node.

Usage

.[@]

Return types

The type selector can return the following types:

• array

• map

• string

• int

• float

• bool

Example

$ echo '{"numbers": [5, 2, 3, 1, 4]}' | dasel -r json '.[@]'
"map"

$ echo '{"numbers": [5, 2, 3, 1, 4]}' | dasel -r json '.numbers.[@]'
"array"

$ echo '{"numbers": [5, 2, 3, 1, 4]}' | dasel -r json '.numbers.[0].[@]'
"float"