How to update/write a value in place using yq's latest version?

[dattasaurabh82]

Dear maintainer. I found examples in docs for Assign(Update) but it doesn't really write to the document. 😅 . Am I missing something here?

For example I have two situation:

1. I want to append strings to an array field in an input yaml file.

   LINKS:
      -
      -

2. And I want to update the string for a field in the same yaml file

   # from
   DIR: /home/test
   # to 
   DIR: /home/Downloads

   The update methods as illustrated:

   yq e '.LINKS[<id>] = "some string"' myfile.yaml

   shows the output dump being updated but it is not written in the file. The file has many other fields as well.

Is there a write in place methods for a file?

[kislyuk]

This is not the yq project you are looking for.