handling selectors with '.' within the element name

[link4531]

Edit It may be more appropriate to refer to as 'node name' or 'selector value'
say I have a yaml/json structure such as

>this.file:
>   -this.attribute: value

what syntax do I need to provide dasel to updating this.attribute to 'newvalue'

>./dasel -p yaml -s this.\file.this.\attribute newvalue

this command breaks out ths,file,this,attribute in to separate nodes. I was hoping the '\' character would solve this but it didn't help. Any suggestions?

[TomWright]

You just need to escape the dot. The backslash does do this, but you are putting in the wrong place. The backslash needs to come before the character you want to escape.

E.g.

 echo 'this.file:
  - this.attribute: value' | dasel put string -p yaml '.this\.file.[0].this\.attribute' newvalue

this.file:
- this.attribute: newvalue

[link4531]

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• deep sigh *

Its lessons like this, that will give me night terrors 10 years down the road.

Thank you sir for assisting me.

I swear I had tried every method of using '\' even the example you provided ( obviously I was wrong )
What I did discover is every way to do it wrong...