Merge two yaml file selecting keys using wildcard character and removing duplicates

[Galileo1]

I want to merge two yaml files using yq in bash script.Selecting only specific keys values , removing duplicates and building a string.

file1.yaml

FT1: true
FT2: true

file2.yaml

FT1: false
FT2: false
FT3: false
FT4: false
Blah1: abc
Blah2: efg

Desired Output:

Trying to build a command like below.

• Filter any keys that starts with (FT*)
• join the key=values
• removing FT1, FT2 from file2.yaml
• And building a command for each key=value pair appending it with --from-literal=

--from-literal=FT1=true --from-literal=FT2=true --from-literal=FT3=false --from-literal=FT4=false

What I have tried so far:
yq eval '. | to_entries| .[] | select(.key == "FT*") | [.key, .value] | join("=") file1.yaml

The above command output is as below. Not sure how to merge them , remove duplicates from file2 and build the command.

file1.yaml
FT1=true FT2=true

[mikefarah]

TLDR:

yq '. * load("data1.yaml") | to_entries | [.[] | select(.key == "FT*") | "--from-entries=" + .key + "=" + .value] | join(" ")' data2.yaml

Explanation:

• . * load("data1.yaml") merge data1 on top of data2, overwriting any duplicate keys (switch the order if you want it the other way around)
• Convert the map to_entries like you had
• .[] | select(.key == "FT*") select all the entries with FT
• "--from-entries=" + .key + "=" + .value construct the desired string for each entry
• [.[] .... .value] wrap the whole entries expression in an array - so you can join it with spaces :)

Edit: formatting