On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dave Baldwin <dave.baldwin / 3dlabs.com> wrote:
>
> On 18 Nov 2011, at 13:29, Rahul Kumar wrote:
>
>> (Sorry, this is not exactly a ruby question).
>>
>> Today some ruby command-line apps are using YAML to store data. The
>> advantage of using sqlite or say a delimited file was that outside one's
>> application one could query the data using sql, or awk/grep/sed/cut for
>> delimited files.
>>
>> With yaml, are there any generic tools to query data ?
>
> It is just a text file so any of your suggestions (awk/grep/sed/cut) will work.

Why not just read the file in an IRB session and traverse the object graph?

Kind regards

robert

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