tldr/pages/common/terraform-show.md

terraform show

Read and output a Terraform state or plan file in human-readable form. More information: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/show.

• Show the current state:

terraform show

• Show a specific state file:

terraform show {{path/to/terraform.tfstate}}

• Show a specific plan file:

terraform show {{path/to/file.tfplan}}

• Output in JSON format:

terraform show -json

• Output a plan file in JSON format:

terraform show -json {{path/to/file.tfplan}}

• Write to a file without color codes:

terraform show -no-color > {{path/to/file}}