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Show HN: Tombl – Easily query .toml files from bash

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Nice project! So it provides first-class support for bash (like arrays etc).

There is also another way; we can convert toml to json via `rq` and query/filter with `jq`:

  curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snyball/tombl/master/Cargo.toml' \
          | rq -t \
          | jq '.package.name + " version is : " + .package.version'

Cool, didn't know about `rq`. Converting everything to json and using `jq` has been my goto for structural data-hacks on the command line, but yeah for my own usage of `tombl` the killer feature was getting a bash array out of the config.

What is rq? I can't seem to find it in any package repo and searching for it leads to pages and pages of nothing relevant.

Probably this: https://github.com/dflemstr/rq

Thanks. Turns out it was on HN earlier this year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31184825

Also checkout yj[1] which can convert between various formats among toml->json

[1]: https://github.com/sclevine/yj

There's already tomlq from https://github.com/kislyuk/yq, which can query TOML using jq syntax.

Actually I wanted exactly something like that with the bash export function. Well done

tomlq would've been a nicer name!

Or Bombadil (Bombadill? Bomb-a-dill?)

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