[SOLVED] Extracting variable in YAML from a shell script

Issue

I have a YAML file composed of the following:

acceleration_matrix:
  # 1ere row: x
  - [20, 0, 0, 15, 15]
  # 2eme row: y
  - [0, 15, 0, 0, 0]
  # 3eme row: z
  - [0, 0, 30, 15, -15]
  # 4eme row: repere de l'acceleration
  - [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
  # 5eme row: loadcase_id
  - [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

I want to extract the last value of the last row (in this case, 5) unsing a shell script. Using this article, I coded:

#!/bin/bash

function parse_yaml {
   local prefix=$2
   local s='[[:space:]]*' w='[a-zA-Z0-9_]*' fs=$(echo @|tr @ '\034')
   sed -ne "s|^\($s\):|\1|" \
        -e "s|^\($s\)\($w\)$s:$s[\"']\(.*\)[\"']$s\$|\1$fs\2$fs\3|p" \
        -e "s|^\($s\)\($w\)$s:$s\(.*\)$s\$|\1$fs\2$fs\3|p"  $1 |
   awk -F$fs '{
      indent = length($1)/2;
      vname[indent] = $2;
      for (i in vname) {if (i > indent) {delete vname[i]}}
      if (length($3) > 0) {
         vn=""; for (i=0; i<indent; i++) {vn=(vn)(vname[i])("_")}
         printf("%s%s%s=\"%s\"\n", "'$prefix'",vn, $2, $3);
      }
   }'
}

parse_yaml nastran_acceleration_matrix.yml

echo $acceleration_matrix

But as I am a newbie in shell, I can't find how to extract the values. What I would want is simply something like :

set number_load_case = ### acceleration_matrix[-1,-1] ### (I'm more used to coding in python thus the -1 aka last row/column)

Could anybody help me out?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

I'd recommend using a proper parser such as yq. Your task (last value of last element of acceleration_matrix) then becomes as simple as

yq eval '.acceleration_matrix[-1][-1]' nastran_acceleration_matrix.yml

Answered By - Benjamin W.