Convert JSON Files to YAML, and Vice Versa

Bash functions to convert JSON files to YAML (and vice versa) using Python and PyYAML.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

function json2yaml() {
  # convert json files to yaml using python and PyYAML
  python -c 'import sys, yaml, json; yaml.safe_dump(json.load(sys.stdin), sys.stdout, default_flow_style=False)' < "$1"
}
 
function yaml2json() {
  # convert yaml files to json using python and PyYAML
  python -c 'import sys, yaml, json; json.dump(yaml.load(sys.stdin), sys.stdout, indent=4)' < "$1"
}