YamlStripper

YamlStripper is a Python command-line tool for removing specified fields from YAML files.

Installation

To use YamlStripper, you need to have Python 3 installed on your computer. You can download and install Python 3 from the official Python website: https://www.python.org/downloads/

After installing Python 3, you can install YamlStripper using pip, the Python package manager:

pip install yaml-stripper

Usage

To use YamlStripper, open a command prompt or terminal window and type the following command:

yaml-stripper input_file output_file -f field1 field2 ...

where:

• input_file - The input YAML file to remove fields from.
• output_file - The output YAML file without the specified fields.
• -f field1 field2 ... - The fields to remove from the input YAML file.

For example, if you have a YAML file called example.yaml with the following contents:

name: John
age: 30
email: john@example.com
phone: 123-456-7890

and you want to remove the email and phone fields from this YAML file and save the result in a new file called stripped.yaml, you can use the following command:

yaml-stripper example.yaml stripped.yaml -f email phone

After running the command, a new file called stripped.yaml will be created with the following contents:

name: John
age: 30

Examples

Here are some more examples of how to use YamlStripper:

Example 1

Suppose you have a YAML file called data.yaml with the following contents:

name: Alice
age: 25
email: alice@example.com
phone: 987-654-3210
address:
  street: 123 Main St
  city: Anytown
  state: CA
  zip: 12345

You want to remove the email and phone fields from this YAML file and save the result in a new file called stripped.yaml. Here's how you can use YamlStripper to achieve this:

yaml-stripper data.yaml stripped.yaml -f email phone

After running the command, a new file called stripped.yaml will be created with the following contents:

name: Alice
age: 25
address:
  street: 123 Main St
  city: Anytown
  state: CA
  zip: 12345

Example 2

Suppose you have a YAML file called config.yaml with the following contents:

debug: true
port: 8000
database:
  host: localhost
  port: 5432
  name: mydb
  user: myuser
  password: mypass

You want to remove the debug field from this YAML file and save the result in a new file called stripped.yaml. Here's how you can use YamlStripper to achieve this:

yaml-stripper config.yaml stripped.yaml -f debug

After running the command, a new file called stripped.yaml will be created with the following contents:

port: 8000
database:
  host: localhost
  port: 5432
  name: mydb
  user: myuser