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command/fmt: Add new fmt command This uses the `fmtcmd` package which has recently been merged into HCL. Per the usage text, this rewrites Terraform config files to their canonical formatting and style. Some notes about the implementation for this initial commit: - all of the fmtcmd options are exposed as CLI flags - it operates on all files that have a `.tf` suffix - it currently only operates on the working directory and doesn't accept a directory argument, but I'll extend this in subsequent commits - output is proxied through `cli.UiWriter` so that we write in the same way as other commands and we can capture the output during tests - the test uses a very simple fixture just to ensure that it is working correctly end-to-end; the fmtcmd package has more exhaustive tests - we have to write the fixture to a file in a temporary directory because it will be modified and for this reason it was easier to define the fixture contents as a raw string
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---
layout: "docs"
page_title: "Command: fmt"
sidebar_current: "docs-commands-fmt"
description: |-
The `terraform fmt` command is used to rewrite Terraform configuration files to a canonical format and style.
---
# Command: fmt
The `terraform fmt` command is used to rewrite Terraform configuration files
to a canonical format and style.
## Usage
Usage: `terraform fmt [options] [DIR]`
command/fmt: Accept optional directory argument So that you can operate on files in a directory other than your current working directory.
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By default, `fmt` scans the current directory for configuration files. If
the `dir` argument is provided then it will scan that given directory
command/fmt: Accept input from STDIN So that you can do automatic formatting from an editor. You probably want to disable the `-write` and `-list` options so that you just get the re-formatted content, e.g. cat main.tf | terraform fmt -write=false -list=false - I've added a non-exported field called `input` so that we can override this for the tests. If not specified, like in `commands.go`, then it will default to `os.Stdin` which works on the command line.
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instead. If `dir` is a single dash (`-`) then `fmt` will read from standard
input (STDIN).
command/fmt: Add new fmt command This uses the `fmtcmd` package which has recently been merged into HCL. Per the usage text, this rewrites Terraform config files to their canonical formatting and style. Some notes about the implementation for this initial commit: - all of the fmtcmd options are exposed as CLI flags - it operates on all files that have a `.tf` suffix - it currently only operates on the working directory and doesn't accept a directory argument, but I'll extend this in subsequent commits - output is proxied through `cli.UiWriter` so that we write in the same way as other commands and we can capture the output during tests - the test uses a very simple fixture just to ensure that it is working correctly end-to-end; the fmtcmd package has more exhaustive tests - we have to write the fixture to a file in a temporary directory because it will be modified and for this reason it was easier to define the fixture contents as a raw string
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The command-line flags are all optional. The list of available flags are:
command/fmt: Disable list/write when using STDIN These options don't make sense when passing STDIN. `-write` will raise an error because there is no file to write to. `-list` will always say `<standard input>`. So disable whenever using STDIN, making the command much simpler: cat main.tf | terraform fmt -
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* `-list=true` - List files whose formatting differs (disabled if using STDIN)
* `-write=true` - Write result to source file instead of STDOUT (disabled if
using STDIN)
command/fmt: Improve documentation for -diff and defaults (#6398) * command/fmt: Document -diff doesn't disable -write As noted in hashicorp/terraform#6343, this description misleadingly suggested that the `-diff` option disables the `-write` option. This isn't the case and because of the default options (described in c753390) the behaviour of `terraform fmt -diff` is actually the same as `terraform fmt -write -list -diff`. Replace the "instead of rewriting" description to clarify that. Documentation in hcl/fmtcmd is corrected in hashicorp/hcl#117 but it's not really necessary to bump the dependency version. * command/fmt: Show flag defaults in help text These were documented on the website but not in the `-help` text. This should help to clarify that you need to pass `-list=false -write=false -diff` if you only want to see diffs. Accordingly I've replaced the word "disabled" with "always false" in the STDIN special cases so that it matches the terminology used in the defaults and better indicates that it is overridden. NB: The 3x duplicated defaults and documentation makes me feel uneasy once again. I'm not sure how to solve that, though.
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* `-diff=false` - Display diffs of formatting changes