Yq: How can I search elements in an array?

[yfried]

Hi,
If I understand the doc correctly, I should be able to search the following array for an app called app2

apps:
- name: app1
  slackChannel: my-team
- name: app2
  autoSync: true

But the following doesn't work: yq read myfile.yaml "apps[*](.name==app2)".

Am I missing something?

I am using the the docker image for mikefarah/yq:3.3.2

[inianv]

@yfried : I guess the [*] will match all the array elements of the parent. I think you need to use the Search by children nodes feature to get the index of the element containing your required string app2 i.e. as

yq read myfile.yaml 'apps.(name==app2)'

[yfried]

Hi @inianv this doesn't work. I'm getting empty output. Any other ideas?

[mikefarah]

@inianv's solution is correct, and it works for me...