2 posts tagged with "yq"

I keep my notes in markdown format, with tags stored in frontmatter. Sometimes I need to apply a particular tag to all notes in a folder. This post describes how to do that using yq.

YQ supports operating and transforming YAML front matter via the --front-matter flag.

For example, when using a file that has front matter, yq can extract the YAML correctly:

$ yq --front-matter=extract '.' ./with-frontmatter.md.txt
---
key: value

However, it behaves unexpectedly when the file does not have any front matter.