y2j
A command line tool for translating YAML streams to JSON.
Installation
pip install y2j
Usage
y2j
accepts YAML data and writes the equivalent JSON to STDOUT. The YAML may be read from a named file, or from STDIN.
Options
-
-c
,--compressed
: Print with no superfluous whitespace. -
-p
,--pretty
: Pretty-print the JSON output
The following examples are based on the contents of example.yml
:
---
y2j:
- Is easy to use
- Is neat
Reading from a file
$ y2j -p example.yml
{
"y2j": [
"Is easy to use",
"Is neat"
]
}
Reading from STDIN
$ cat example.yml | y2j -p
{
"y2j": [
"Is easy to use",
"Is neat"
]
}