Is there a way to list all of the controls in an inspec profile?

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Hi there,

My question is just what it says on the box : Is there a way to list all of the controls in a profile?

Preferably, in some human-readable or document-friendly way (ie, markdown).

I would like to have a README that contains the section Controls listing the name and description of the controls implemented in the profile. It seems like copy/pasting them from the profile itself is not very DRY.

Thanks!

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You could use inspec json to get the content of the profile as JSON and pipe to jq

e.g. inspec json . | jq '.controls[] | .id'

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Much obliged @stocksy, this is exactly what I was looking for :clap: