Output full document where a given line is found

[chipzoller]

Hi there, been using yq for a while and it's a tremendously useful tool. One thing I've been trying to do is a simple way to say, "give me the full YAML document found within this file (which contains multiple) where a given line is found." For example, you perform a helm template and get back a ton of resources, but I want to get only one of those but see the entire YAML for that resource. I'm trying to avoid using grep -A and manually specifying number of lines. Is there an easy way to do this in yq or would it also involve a nasty query string?

[mikefarah]

Without having a sample document it's hard to you the answer - it seems like you need to use the select operator (https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/operators/select) and do something like:

yq 'select(.this.path.exists)' document.yaml

[chipzoller]

Thank you, Mike!