TomWright/dasel

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8027 stars · 176 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Dasel is a command-line tool and Go library for querying, modifying, and transforming structured data across JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, CSV, INI, HCL, and KDL formats using a unified query syntax. It supports in-place file editing, format conversion, and shell-script-friendly pipelines.

Use cases

• query values from a yaml config file from the command line
• convert to yaml or toml to
• update a field in a toml file in place
• extract fields from in a shell script like jq
• modify kubernetes yaml manifests from ci pipelines
• query hcl terraform files
• parse csv and xml with one unified syntax

When to choose

• you need one tool to query and edit many structured data formats
• you want a jq/yq alternative with a consistent syntax across formats
• you need format conversion between , yaml, toml, xml, and csv
• you want a Go library for structured data manipulation

When to avoid

• you only work with JSON and prefer jq's mature ecosystem
• you need streaming processing of very large files
• you need a GUI or interactive data exploration tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

parser developer-tools cli yaml csv data-science developer-tools files windows go cli cross-platform data-wrangling query-language toml xml hcl kdl ini format-conversion jq-alternative yq-alternative command-line devops data-engineering linux macos docker

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