Any limitations on max string length that can be written in yq?

[kk-hiraskar]

I have a key in yaml file, which will be written with multi-line string..
day to day this value length got increased, and now it's crossing 2^17 = 131,072 characters

So seems 2^17 is the limit in yq..? please can somebody confirm?
I tried to search on this issue, but no results!

And the error I am getting is:

/usr/local/bin/yq: Argument list too long
Error: writing value <big-value> to yaml <file> with path <key>

wanted to understand if this is the limitation ?
or bug in yq?

yq (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/) version v4.44.3

[kk-hiraskar]

Might be a linux limitation, coz it might be a big chunk to pass a command (example yq is the case here)

just a guess I am not sure..

[mikefarah]

Yeah I haven't put any extra limits.
You're probably better off having the value in a text file, then using load_str (docs) to set the value on a particular key

yq '.this.thing = load_str("file_with_lots_of_contents.txt")'

[kk-hiraskar]

Thanks Mike.. this seems a solution..
I will try this soon..
Thanks a lot for a quick response..

[kk-hiraskar]

Thanks @mikefarah
it is working, but "|-" getting replaced with "|"
I saw an issue #2025

so any way we can force to use |- ?