path: /export/home/frank options: - param: i value: 1001 - param: f - param: x value: eyes arguments: - value: test #### #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use YAML::XS qw(LoadFile DumpFile); use Data::Dumper; my $data = LoadFile('test.yaml'); print Dumper($data); DumpFile('out.yaml', $data); #### --- arguments: - value: test options: - param: i value: 1001 - param: f - param: x value: eyes path: /export/home/frank