Merge specific object from select

[p3lim]

file1.yaml:

data:
  values: |
    foo: bar

file2.yaml:

john: 42

I can merge data.values from the first file with the second file using yq twice:

yq e '.data.values' file1.yaml | yq ea 'select(fi==1) * select(fi==0)' file2.yaml -

Which outputs this:

john: 42
foo: bar

But I'm wondering if this is possible with just calling yq once, e.g. something like this:

yq ea 'select(fi==0).data.values * select(fi==1)' file1.yaml file2.yaml

[mikefarah]

Yeah the issue is that data.values is actually a string block, as denoted by the '|' - the contents of which happens to be a (now) string encoded yaml file.

Running once to extract and then again to process makes sense