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Unified querying, transformation, and modification of JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL, KDL and CSV.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 6 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-10-30 · latest 2025-10-13

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  1. Did you try https://github.com/TomWright/dasel ?
    comment by esafak · 2025-10-13 · in Modern Linux tools
  2. Try https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
    comment by esafak · 2025-10-13 · in Modern Linux tools
  3. No HCL support [0] though. [0]: https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/issues/98
    comment by nikolay · 2024-08-19 · in Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
  4. …wish hclq [3] wasn't so dead! [0]: https://jmespath.org/ [1]: https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/ [2]: https://github.com/TomWright/dasel [3]: https://hclq.sh/
    comment by nikolay · 2023-09-07 · in jq 1.7
  5. Seems like you meant https://github.com/TomWright/dasel (instead of damsel)
    comment by asicsp · 2023-03-16 · in Miller: Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
  6. …https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc https://github.com/TomWright/dasel https://github.com/johnkerl/miller https://stedolan.github.io/jq https://github.com/harelba/q ...
    comment by guilhas · 2023-03-13 · in Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified
  7. …space is Dasel[1], which can handle querying/modifying JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV files. [1] https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
    comment by CathalMullan · 2023-02-04 · in yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor
  8. There's also https://github.com/TomWright/dasel (supports JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV)
    comment by asicsp · 2022-11-03 · in JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools
  9. …with JSON querying. I spend too much time rereading the jq manual to do anything non-trivial. https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
    comment by mmgutz · 2022-04-28 · in rq: Universal convertor between structured data (JSON, MessagePack, CBOR, etc.)
  10. …and regularly use it to convert between csv, toml, yaml, json, and xml using jq-ish syntaxes. https://github.com/tomwright/dasel
    comment by hoherd · 2022-04-26 · in Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq
  11. …https://github.com/antonmedv/fx dasel: JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, and CSV query and modification tool - https://github.com/TomWright/dasel dsq: CLI tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more -…
    comment by luckman212 · 2022-03-21 · in Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON
  12. For anyone wrangling with data like I do. I use https://github.com/TomWright/dasel quite a lot (it supports various formats and conversion between them) Also csvkit https://csvkit.readthedocs.io for CSV to sql. And ofcourse pandas for…
    comment by technicolorwhat · 2021-08-25 · in An Introduction to JQ