yq generate config.json with the --help content and stop

[mikxo]

While trying to run the script .run-seedbox.sh on a newly installed debian system, all prerequisites done the script run-seedbox.sh stopped at the comment
"[./run-seedbox.sh] ***** Checking environment variables and files... ***** ********** Check of variables commands done ************"

and was doing nothing more. I checked the line where it stopped and try to run the problematic command :
yq eval -o json config.yaml > config.json

and the .json generated is the content of the yq --help and jq --help.

In that help documentation I do not find the explanation for "-o" option. Is it because I'm using the newest version of yq and that option has been replaced ? To be able to manually set the right option, what was the -o for ?

Thanks and great job btw putting all this together !

[jfroment]

Hello,

Are you sure you're using the v4 version of yq?
In order to check it, please execute:

yq --version

In previous versions, CLI arguments were not the same, so the script won't work with it.

[mikxo]

Indeed, thank you for this. I installed yq with ap and the version display clearly show the error with that version:
yq 0.0.0

I will try to remove this one and install the correct version manually. Thank's !