Read a YAML file to a string

[hjiajing]

Can we use yq to read a YAML file to a string?

e.g.
The file is

test:
  a: b

and what I want is test: \n. a: b\n

[mikefarah]

Not entirely sure what you want here - as the file is already a string.

I think you probably need to use the encoder operator detailed here: https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/operators/encode-decode

[julianbarg]

Since yq's output is already a string, you can do any kind of conversion you want on that output. Would this work for you?

yq '.' file.yaml | awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}'

[mikefarah]

Oh I see, you can get the same result using the 'sub' command to replace newlines with \n, no need for awk.

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[hjiajing]

Thanks for the reply, I used sed to replace the "\n" and then it works well.