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The -var command line option comes with the disadvantage that a user must contend both with Terraform's own parser and with the parser in whichever shell they've decided to use, and different shells on different platforms have different rules. Previously we've largely just assumed that folks know the appropriate syntax for the shell they chose, but it seems that command lines involving spaces and other special characters arise rarely enough in other commands that Terraform is often the first time someone needs to learn the appropriate syntax for their shell. We can't possibly capture all of the details of all shells in our docs, because that's far outside of our own scope, but hopefully this new section will go some way to give some real examples that will help folks figure out how to write suitable escape sequences, if they choose to set complex variable values on the command line rather than in .tfvars as we recommend elsewhere on this page. |
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README.md
Terraform Documentation
This directory contains the portions of the Terraform website that pertain to the core functionality, excluding providers and the overall configuration.
The files in this directory are intended to be used in conjunction with
the terraform-website repository, which brings all of the
different documentation sources together and contains the scripts for testing and building the site as
a whole.