github.com/wikibal01/hashicorp-terraform@v0.11.12-beta1/website/docs/commands/state/pull.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "commands-state" 3 page_title: "Command: state pull" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-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/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 and 20 output the raw format to stdout. 21 22 This is useful for reading values out of state (potentially pairing this 23 command with something like [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)). It is 24 also useful if you need to make manual modifications to state.