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Pretty Printing YAML with the Ruby Command-Line

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Today I had a pretty fun little thing to do - validate that a YAML file was well formed (because it turns out, it wasn't).

I wanted a handy one-liner to confirm it, similar to my Pretty Print JSON series.

As I use Ruby for my primarily scripting language of choice, this example will be done with Ruby.

To parse the YAML file, and then pretty-print it, we can simply run:

ruby -ryaml -e 'puts YAML.load(ARGF.read).to_yaml' file.yaml
ruby -ryaml -e 'puts YAML.load(ARGF.read).to_yaml' < file.yaml

And because YAML is a valid superset of JSON, we can also use the same for JSON files!

ruby -ryaml -e 'puts YAML.load(ARGF.read).to_yaml' file.json
ruby -ryaml -e 'puts YAML.load(ARGF.read).to_yaml' < file.json

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