What I often use to just get the full key paths is yq (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq https://github.com/mikefarah/yq), piping into grep when necessary yq -

What I often use to just get the full key paths is yq (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq https://github.com/mikefarah/yq), piping into grep when necessary yq -o=props <file> e.g. kind = Ingress metadata.name = hello spec.rules.0.host = localhost spec.rules.0.http.paths.0.pathType = ImplementationSpecific spec.rules.0.http.paths.0.backend.service.name = hello spec.rules.0.http.paths.0.backend.service.port.number = 80 The one drawback I've encountered so far are multi-doc files - yq can certainly handle those, but you have to script the loop yourself.