Recast

Transforms one serialization format into another. Available serialization formats include:

• JSON (application/json)
• TOML (application/toml)
• Yaml (text/x-yaml)
• Query strings
• CSV (text/csv)
• XML (text/xml)

Installation

The releases page contains pre-compiled releases and shell completion files

Usage

Transforms one serialization format into another

Usage: recast [OPTIONS] [FILE]

Arguments:
  [FILE]  Input from file

Options:
  -f, --from <FORMAT>  Input format [default: json] [possible values: json, toml, yaml, query, csv, xml]
  -t, --to <FORMAT>    Output format [default: json] [possible values: json, toml, yaml, query, csv, xml]
  -o, --out <FILE>     Output to file
  -h, --help           Print help information (use `--help` for more detail)
  -V, --version        Print version information

Examples

jq

Leverage jq's powerful filters on other serialization formats

$ recast -f toml Cargo.lock \
  | jq '.package | map({name: .name, version: .version}) | sort_by(.name)' \
  | recast -t csv \
  | head -n 5
name,version
addr2line,0.19.0
adler,1.0.2
autocfg,1.1.0
backtrace,0.3.67

Syntax highlighting

recast doesn't provide syntax highlighting, but you can leverage other cli tools like bat for this purpose

recast -f toml Cargo.toml | bat --language json