Terraform: Terraform state rm - deletes everything

Created on 2 Oct 2017 · 5Comments · Source: hashicorp/terraform

Terraform Version

0.9.11

Expected Behavior

I wouldn't have imagined that terraform state rm without arguments would delete all of the resources in the terraform.tfstate file. I think this should be treated as an erroneous command by the user.

Actual Behavior

TF removed all of the resource in the terraform.tfstate file.
If remote state is configured, it'll also sync the now bare tfstate up to the remote location.

Steps to Reproduce

terraform state rm

Source

kjhosein

Most helpful comment

@alwaysastudent:
terraform state rm "" as per this comment

padamczewski on 22 Aug 2018

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All 5 comments

Thanks for filing the issue.

This is fixed in current releases by #15479.

jbardin on 3 Oct 2017

How to remove all ?

alwaysastudent on 31 May 2018

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@alwaysastudent:
terraform state rm "" as per this comment

padamczewski on 22 Aug 2018

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@padamczewski
Unfortunately when I run terraform state rm "", I got the following error:

Error: Variable name required

  on  line 1:
  (source code not available)

Must begin with a variable name.

I'm on terraform 0.12.6 by the way.

rivernews on 21 Nov 2019

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