github.com/muratcelep/terraform@v1.1.0-beta2-not-internal-4/website/docs/cli/commands/state/pull.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "Command: state pull" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-commands-state-sub-pull" 5 description: |- 6 The `terraform state pull` command is used to manually download and output the state from remote state. 7 --- 8 9 # Command: state pull 10 11 The `terraform state pull` command is used to manually download and output 12 the state from [remote state](/docs/language/state/remote.html). This command also 13 works with local state. 14 15 ## Usage 16 17 Usage: `terraform state pull` 18 19 This command will download the state from its current location, upgrade the 20 local copy to the latest state file version that is compatible with 21 locally-installed Terraform, and output the raw format to stdout. 22 23 This is useful for reading values out of state (potentially pairing this 24 command with something like [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)). It is 25 also useful if you need to make manual modifications to state. 26 27 ~> Note: This command cannot be used to inspect the Terraform version of 28 the remote state, as it will always be converted to the current Terraform 29 version before output.