HashiCorp Exam VA-002-P Topic 6 Question 35 Discussion

The terraform show command is used to provide human-readable output from a state or plan file. This can be used to inspect a plan to ensure that the planned operations are expected, or to inspect the current state as Terraform sees it.

Machine-readable output can be generated by adding the -json command-line flag.

Note: When using the -json command-line flag, any sensitive values in Terraform state will be displayed in plain text.