hq

hq is a command-line HCL processor.

install

This will install an hq binary on your system:

$ cargo install hq-rs

usage

Here is an example HCL file:

some_attr = {
    foo = [1, 2]
    bar = true
}

some_block "some_block_label" {
    attr = "value"
}

You can query the attribute(s) and block(s) in an HCL file like so:

$ cat example.hcl | hq '.some_attr'
{
  foo = [
    1,
    2
  ]
  bar = true
}

$ cat example.hcl | hq '.some_attr.foo'
[
  1,
  2
]

$ cat example.hcl | hq '.some_block'
attr = "value"

$ cat example.hcl | hq '.some_block.attr'
"value"