Reverse

Reverses the order of the items in an array

Given a sample.yml file of:

yaml

- 1
- 2
- 3

then

bash

yq 'reverse' sample.yml

will output

yaml

- 3
- 2
- 1

Sort descending by string field

Use sort with reverse to sort in descending order.

Given a sample.yml file of:

yaml

- a: banana
- a: cat
- a: apple

then

bash

yq 'sort_by(.a) | reverse' sample.yml

will output

yaml

- a: cat
- a: banana
- a: apple