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)

Installation

| Package manager | Command | | --------------- | ---------------------- | | Cargo | cargo install recast |

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

Usage

```text Transforms one serialization format into another

Usage: recast [OPTIONS] [FILE]

Arguments: [FILE] Input from file

Options: -f, --from Input format [default: json] [possible values: json, toml, yaml, query, csv] -t, --to Output format [default: json] [possible values: json, toml, yaml, query, csv] -o, --out 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

sh $ 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

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