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/opt/chainguard/semgrep/bin/glom

Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

From semgrep 1.165.0-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running glom --help (exit 0). permalink

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Usage: /opt/chainguard/semgrep/bin/glom [FLAGS] [spec [target]]

  Command-line interface to the glom library, providing nested data access
  and data restructuring with the power of Python.


Flags:

  --help / -h   show this help message and exit
  --target-file TARGET_FILE
                path to target data source
  --target-format TARGET_FORMAT
                format of the source data (json or python) (defaults to
                'json')
  --spec-file SPEC_FILE
                path to glom spec definition
  --spec-format SPEC_FORMAT
                format of the glom spec definition (json, python, python-full)
                (defaults to 'python')
  --indent INDENT
                number of spaces to indent the result, 0 to disable pretty-
                printing (defaults to 2)
  --scalar      if the result is a single value (not a collection), output it
                without quotes or whitespace, for easier usage in scripts
  --debug       interactively debug any errors that come up
  --inspect     interactively explore the data
Options (9)
OptionDescriptionSource
--help /show this help message and exithelp
--target-file TARGET_FILEpath to target data sourcehelp
--target-format TARGET_FORMATformat of the source data (json or python) (defaults to 'json')help
--spec-file SPEC_FILEpath to glom spec definitionhelp
--spec-format SPEC_FORMATformat of the glom spec definition (json, python, python-full) (defaults to 'python')help
--indent INDENTnumber of spaces to indent the result, 0 to disable pretty- printing (defaults to 2)help
--scalarif the result is a single value (not a collection), output it without quotes or whitespace, for easier usage in scriptshelp
--debuginteractively debug any errors that come uphelp
--inspectinteractively explore the datahelp

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