For some reason I need that. OK, not any reason. For integrating a CloudInit YAML file into an AWS CloudFormation template. By using this article as reference, I made a simple node.js script for doing just that.
#!/usr/bin/env node var fs = require('fs'); fs.readFile(process.argv[2], function (err, file) { if (err) { console.error(err); process.exit(1); } file = file.toString().split('\n'); var idx, aux = []; for (idx = 0; idx < file.length; idx++) { aux.push(file[idx]); aux.push('\n'); } file = JSON.stringify(aux); console.log(file); }); |
Save as something.js, make it an executable, then invoke it with ./something.js /path/to/file.
The end.