Content to multiple files with key as name and content as content

[dtcopcp]

This feels like it might be trivial, apologies if it is.

If I can filter down to a map in the form:

filename1.json: {"some":"json"}
filename2.json: {"some":"json"}

how can I split this into two files: filename1.json and filename2.json with only the json as content?

Thanks

[mikefarah]

Sure, you can do it like this:

yq '.[]' -s 'key' data1.yaml

Explanation:

• .[] is the expression we use to split the file contents into the two map values (e.g. {"some":"json"})
• Then we use the split argument -s and pass that the expression key, letting it know to use the key of each value as the filename

See https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/usage/split-into-multiple-files#split-single-document-into-files for more