Put
Description
This command allows you to modify data at a given selector.
Dasel will create any data items that do not already exist allowing you to create entire data structures from nothing.
Usage
If --file
is used without --out
then the source file will be updated.
Flag | Description |
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| |
| The value to write. Dasel will parse this value as a string, int, or bool from this value depending on the given If no This is required. |
| A path to a file containing the value.
If present, the contents of the file takes precedence over |
| Specify the file to query. This is required unless you are piping in data. If piping in data you can optionally pass |
| Specify the output file. If present, results will be written to the given file. If not present, results will be written to the input file (or stdout if none given). To force output to be written to stdout, pass |
| Specify the parser to use when reading the input data. This is required if you are piping in data, otherwise dasel will use the given file extension to guess which parser to use. See supported file types. |
| Specify the parser to use when writing the output data. If not provided dasel will attempt to use the See supported file types. |
| Shorthand for |
| Tells dasel to put multiple items. See multiple. |
| Specify the selector to use. See selectors for more information. If no selector flag is given, dasel assumes the first argument given is the selector. This is required. |
| By default, dasel formats the output using the specified parser. If this flag is used no formatting occurs and the results output as a string. |
| This tells dasel to output compact data where possible. E.g. not pretty printing JSON. |
| |
| See escape html. |
Example
Put string
Create documents from scratch
You can pipe multiple dasel commands together in order to build entire documents or make multiple changes:
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