考虑到Python3和PyYAML是非常容易满足的依赖关系，下面的代码可能会有所帮助:

yaml() {
    python3 -c "import yaml;print(yaml.safe_load(open('$1'))$2)"
}

VALUE=$(yaml ~/my_yaml_file.yaml "['a_key']")

我已经用python编写了shyaml，用于从shell命令行查询YAML。

概述:

$ pip install shyaml      ## installation

示例的YAML文件(具有复杂的功能):

$ cat <<EOF > test.yaml
name: "MyName !!"
subvalue:
    how-much: 1.1
    things:
        - first
        - second
        - third
    other-things: [a, b, c]
    maintainer: "Valentin Lab"
    description: |
        Multiline description:
        Line 1
        Line 2
EOF

基本的查询:

$ cat test.yaml | shyaml get-value subvalue.maintainer
Valentin Lab

更复杂的循环查询复杂的值:

$ cat test.yaml | shyaml values-0 | \
  while read -r -d $'\0' value; do
      echo "RECEIVED: '$value'"
  done
RECEIVED: '1.1'
RECEIVED: '- first
- second
- third'
RECEIVED: '2'
RECEIVED: 'Valentin Lab'
RECEIVED: 'Multiline description:
Line 1
Line 2'

以下几个要点:

all YAML types and syntax oddities are correctly handled, as multiline, quoted strings, inline sequences... \0 padded output is available for solid multiline entry manipulation. simple dotted notation to select sub-values (ie: subvalue.maintainer is a valid key). access by index is provided to sequences (ie: subvalue.things.-1 is the last element of the subvalue.things sequence.) access to all sequence/structs elements in one go for use in bash loops. you can output whole subpart of a YAML file as ... YAML, which blend well for further manipulations with shyaml.

更多的示例和文档可以在shyaml github页面或shyaml PyPI页面上找到。

把我的答案从如何在bash中将json响应转换为yaml，因为这似乎是关于从命令行处理yaml文本解析的权威帖子。

我想添加一些关于yq YAML实现的细节。由于这个YAML解析器有两种实现，名称都是yq，如果不查看实现的DSL，就很难区分使用的是哪一种。有两个可用的实现

kislyuk/yq——更常被提及的版本，它是jq的包装器，用Python编写，使用PyYAML库进行YAML解析 mikefarah/yq -一个Go实现，使用Go -yaml v3解析器，有自己的动态DSL。

几乎所有主要发行版都可以通过标准安装包管理器进行安装

kislyuk/yq -安装说明 mikefarah/yq -安装说明

这两个版本都有一些优点和缺点，但有一些有效的点需要强调(从他们的回购指令中采用)

kislyuk - yq

Since the DSL is the adopted completely from jq, for users familiar with the latter, the parsing and manipulation becomes quite straightforward Supports mode to preserve YAML tags and styles, but loses comments during the conversion. Since jq doesn't preserve comments, during the round-trip conversion, the comments are lost. As part of the package, XML support is built in. An executable, xq, which transcodes XML to JSON using xmltodict and pipes it to jq, on which you can apply the same DSL to perform CRUD operations on the objects and round-trip the output back to XML. Supports in-place edit mode with -i flag (similar to sed -i)

迈克法拉/YQ

Prone to frequent changes in DSL, migration from 2.x - 3.x Rich support for anchors, styles and tags. But lookout for bugs once in a while A relatively simple Path expression syntax to navigate and match yaml nodes Supports YAML->JSON, JSON->YAML formatting and pretty printing YAML (with comments) Supports in-place edit mode with -i flag (similar to sed -i) Supports coloring the output YAML with -C flag (not applicable for JSON output) and indentation of the sub elements (default at 2 spaces) Supports Shell completion for most shells - Bash, zsh (because of powerful support from spf13/cobra used to generate CLI flags)

我对以下两个版本的YAML的看法(在其他答案中也有引用)

root_key1: this is value one
root_key2: "this is value two"

drink:
  state: liquid
  coffee:
    best_served: hot
    colour: brown
  orange_juice:
    best_served: cold
    colour: orange

food:
  state: solid
  apple_pie:
    best_served: warm

root_key_3: this is value three

对这两个实现执行的各种操作(一些常用操作)

修改根节点值—修改“root_key2”的值 修改数组内容，增加值-为coffee添加属性 修改数组内容，删除value - Delete属性从orange_juice 打印带有路径的键/值对—用于food下的所有项目

使用kislyuk / yq

Yq -y '。Root_key2 |= "this is a new value 你，你，喝。咖啡+={时间:"always"}' yaml Yq -y 'del(.drink.orange_juice.colour)' yaml yq - r的.food |路径(标量)美元p | (($ p |加入(“。”)),(getpath ($ p) | tojson)] | @tsv的yaml

这很简单。你所需要做的就是用-y标志将jq JSON输出转码回YAML。

用mikefarah - yq

Yq w yaml root_key2 "这是一个新值" Yq w yaml喝。咖啡。时间“总是” Yq d yaml饮料。橙汁。颜色 yq r yaml——printMode pv "food.**"

截至2020年12月21日，yq v4是测试版，支持许多强大的路径表达式，并支持类似于使用jq的DSL。阅读过渡说明-从V3升级

你也可以考虑使用Grunt (JavaScript任务运行器)。可以很容易地与shell集成。它支持读取YAML (grunt.file.readYAML)和JSON (grunt.file.readJSON)文件。

这可以通过在Gruntfile.js(或Gruntfile.coffee)中创建一个任务来实现，例如:

module.exports = function (grunt) {

    grunt.registerTask('foo', ['load_yml']);

    grunt.registerTask('load_yml', function () {
        var data = grunt.file.readYAML('foo.yml');
        Object.keys(data).forEach(function (g) {
          // ... switch (g) { case 'my_key':
        });
    });

};

然后在shell中简单地运行grunt foo(检查grunt—help是否有可用的任务)。

此外，你可以实现exec:foo任务(grunt-exec)与输入变量从你的任务(foo: {cmd: 'echo bar <%= foo %>'})为了打印输出在任何格式你想要的，然后管道到另一个命令。

还有一个类似于Grunt的工具，它叫做gulp，带有额外的插件gulp-yaml。

安装方法:npm Install——save-dev gulp-yaml

示例用法:

var yaml = require('gulp-yaml');

gulp.src('./src/*.yml')
  .pipe(yaml())
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))

gulp.src('./src/*.yml')
  .pipe(yaml({ space: 2 }))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))

gulp.src('./src/*.yml')
  .pipe(yaml({ safe: true }))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))

要了解更多处理YAML格式的选项，请查看YAML网站上可用的项目、库和其他资源，这些资源可以帮助您解析该格式。

其他工具:

Jshon 解析、读取和创建JSON

我知道我的回答很具体，但是如果已经安装了PHP和Symfony，那么使用Symfony的YAML解析器会非常方便。

例如:

php -r "require '$SYMFONY_ROOT_PATH/vendor/autoload.php'; \
    var_dump(\Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml::parse(file_get_contents('$YAML_FILE_PATH')));"

这里我只是简单地使用var_dump来输出解析后的数组，当然你还可以做更多…：）

Whenever you need a solution for "How to work with YAML/JSON/compatible data from a shell script" which works on just about every OS with Python (*nix, OSX, Windows), consider yamlpath, which provides several command-line tools for reading, writing, searching, and merging YAML, EYAML, JSON, and compatible files. Since just about every OS either comes with Python pre-installed or it is trivial to install, this makes yamlpath highly portable. Even more interesting: this project defines an intuitive path language with very powerful, command-line-friendly syntax that enables accessing one or more nodes.

针对您的具体问题，在使用Python的本地包管理器或您的操作系统的包管理器安装yamlpath之后(yamlpath可以通过RPM对某些操作系统提供):

#!/bin/bash
# Read values directly from YAML (or EYAML, JSON, etc) for use in this shell script:
myShellVar=$(yaml-get --query=any.path.no[matter%how].complex source-file.yaml)

# Use the value any way you need:
echo "Retrieved ${myShellVar}"

# Perhaps change the value and write it back:
myShellVar="New Value"
yaml-set --change=/any/path/no[matter%how]/complex --value="$myShellVar" source-file.yaml

不过，您没有指定数据是一个简单的Scalar值，因此让我们提高赌注。如果你想要的结果是一个数组呢?更有挑战性的是，如果它是一个哈希数组，而你只想要每个结果的一个属性呢?进一步假设您的数据实际上分布在多个YAML文件中，并且您需要在单个查询中获得所有结果。这是一个更有趣的问题。所以，假设你有这两个YAML文件:

文件:data1.yaml

---
baubles:
  - name: Doohickey
    sku: 0-000-1
    price: 4.75
    weight: 2.7g
  - name: Doodad
    sku: 0-000-2
    price: 10.5
    weight: 5g
  - name: Oddball
    sku: 0-000-3
    price: 25.99
    weight: 25kg

文件:data2.yaml

---
baubles:
  - name: Fob
    sku: 0-000-4
    price: 0.99
    weight: 18mg
  - name: Doohickey
    price: 10.5
  - name: Oddball
    sku: 0-000-3
    description: This ball is odd

在应用数据2的更改后，如何仅报告库存中每个项目的sku。Yaml到data1。Yaml，所有从一个shell脚本?试试这个:

#!/bin/bash
baubleSKUs=($(yaml-merge --aoh=deep data1.yaml data2.yaml | yaml-get --query=/baubles/sku -))

for sku in "${baubleSKUs[@]}"; do
    echo "Found bauble SKU:  ${sku}"
done

你只需要几行代码就能得到你想要的东西:

Found bauble SKU:  0-000-1
Found bauble SKU:  0-000-2
Found bauble SKU:  0-000-3
Found bauble SKU:  0-000-4

如您所见，yamlpath将非常复杂的问题转化为简单的解决方案。注意，整个查询是作为一个流处理的;查询没有更改YAML文件，也没有临时文件。

I realize this is "yet another tool to solve the same question" but after reading the other answers here, yamlpath appears more portable and robust than most alternatives. It also fully understands YAML/JSON/compatible files and it does not need to convert YAML to JSON to perform requested operations. As such, comments within the original YAML file are preserved whenever you need to change data in the source YAML file. Like some alternatives, yamlpath is also portable across OSes. More importantly, yamlpath defines a query language that is extremely powerful, enabling very specialized/filtered data queries. It can even operate against results from disparate parts of the file in a single query.

If you want to get or set many values in the data at once -- including complex data like hashes/arrays/maps/lists -- yamlpath can do that. Want a value but don't know precisely where it is in the document? yamlpath can find it and give you the exact path(s). Need to merge multiple data file together, including from STDIN? yamlpath does that, too. Further, yamlpath fully comprehends YAML anchors and their aliases, always giving or changing exactly the data you expect whether it is a concrete or referenced value.

免责声明:我编写并维护了yamlpath，它是基于ruamel的。yaml是基于PyYAML的。因此，yamlpath完全符合标准。