sde 0.0.1

A CLI tool to edit simple JSON and YAML data files

sde

sde is not sed. It's a structured data editor for CLI.

Why?

Many people asked for a simple JSON in-place editing and jq was the solution:

• Modify a key-value in a json using jq in-place
• How to modify a key's value in a JSON file from command line

jq '.address = "abcde"' test.json|sponge test.json

Does this seem readable or elegant to you?

sde is not a substitue for jq or sed.

It allows simple in-place JSON value changes, for simple data.

{
   "name":"John",
   "age":31,
   "city":"New York",
   "extra": {
       "sex": "male"
   }
}

Modify data

sde name Jack data.json
sde extra.sex female data.json
sde pools.0.pass secret data.json

echo $json | sde name Jack

Query simple data

sdg name data.json