sf config get --value parameter

[pkozuchowski]

This is proposal for new --value parameter for sf config get command, that would return only value of the configuration variable.

Example use case, assuming target-org is myScratchOrg

TARGET_ORG="$(sf config get --value target-org )"

$ echo $TARGET_ORG
myScratchOrg

[mdonnalley]

I'll let @VivekMChawla speak to whether or not we should prioritize implementing this but it's worth pointing out that you can achieve this today using jq

sf config get target-org --json | jq '.result[0].value'

[pkozuchowski]

Yup, that was one of the directions I was investigating. My main use case is for scripts which my team use to set up scratch orgs and seed it with data. We are working on rather limited remote desktops, so JQ solution would require everyone to download jq and put it in PATH, since it's not standard in windows git bash.

[shetzel]

jq is included in our full docker image if that is an option for you

[daveespo]

I'll admit that we have similar environment constraints to @pkozuchowski and adding a dependency on jq is a drag.

Returning the isolated config value would simplify (eliminate) a terrible regex we use to fish out the config value from the JSON response.

[cristiand391]

I would love to have a jq query parser for javascript, we could have a --jq <jq-query> in our commands which could help in these restricted-machines scenarios, like the GH CLI commands do:
https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_codespace_list

example:

sf config get target-org --json --jq ".result[0].name"
test-blablabla

[daveespo]

Yep, that would fit the bill. Approved! :-)