CBOR CLI

Command line tool for encoding and decoding CBOR using serde. Supports import and export for JSON, YAML, and TOML. Supports deep inspection of CBOR files.

Features:

• Import and Export from JSON, YAML, TOML
• Inspect CBOR files for debugging
• Supports piped input and output (stdin and stdout)
• Supports multiple input files or multiple items in a single file
• Supports custom delimiters output

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap takenpilot/cbor
brew install cbor-cli

Cargo

cargo install cbor-cli

Debian

Installs the public key, downloads the latest .deb file, and installs it.

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TakenPilot/cbor-cli/main/install-cbor-deb.sh | sh

Import

cbor import test.json > test.cbor

Export

Example of exporting to a JSON file:

cbor export --format=json test.cbor > test.json

Example of importing in one format and exporting in another:

cbor import test.json | cbor export --format=yaml > test.yaml

Example of importing stdin and then exporting to stdout:

cat test1.json test2.json | cbor import --format=json | cbor -d=",\n" export --format=json

Inspect

For debugging, you can dump the structure of one or more CBOR files to stdout.

cbor inspect test.cbor

You can inspect the resulting data across multiple types of files if you pipe to cbor first:

cbor import ../fixtures/test.json ../fixtures/test.yaml | cbor inspect

Delimiter

You can specify a unique delimiter.

cbor export --format=json --delimiter=, test.cbor > test.json

TODO

• Import and Export to Parquet
• Inspect Tag support: Compression
• Inspect Tag support: Date, Time, Timestamp
• Inspect Tag support: BigNum, Fractions, Decimals
• Inspect Tag support: Geo and Spacial coordinates
• Inspect Tag support: Deferred CBOR
• Inspect Tag support: UUID
• Inspect Tag support: Base64
• Inspect Tag support: Base16
• Inspect Tag support: URI and URLs

Development

brew install dpkg

cargo install cargo-deb
rustup target add i686-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo deb --target=i686-unknown-linux-gnu