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page_title: 'Command: state'
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description: The `terraform state` command is used for advanced state management.
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# State Command
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The `terraform state` command is used for advanced state management.
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As your Terraform usage becomes more advanced, there are some cases where
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you may need to modify the [Terraform state](/language/state).
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Rather than modify the state directly, the `terraform state` commands can
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be used in many cases instead.
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This command is a nested subcommand, meaning that it has further subcommands.
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These subcommands are listed to the left.
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## Usage
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Usage: `terraform state <subcommand> [options] [args]`
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Please click a subcommand to the left for more information.
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## Remote State
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The Terraform state subcommands all work with remote state just as if it
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was local state. Reads and writes may take longer than normal as each read
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and each write do a full network roundtrip. Otherwise, backups are still
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written to disk and the CLI usage is the same as if it were local state.
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## Backups
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All `terraform state` subcommands that modify the state write backup
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files. The path of these backup file can be controlled with `-backup`.
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Subcommands that are read-only (such as [list](/cli/commands/state/list))
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do not write any backup files since they aren't modifying the state.
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Note that backups for state modification _can not be disabled_. Due to
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the sensitivity of the state file, Terraform forces every state modification
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command to write a backup file. You'll have to remove these files manually
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if you don't want to keep them around.
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## Command-Line Friendly
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The output and command-line structure of the state subcommands is
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designed to be usable with Unix command-line tools such as grep, awk,
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and similar PowerShell commands.
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For advanced filtering and modification, we recommend piping Terraform
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state subcommands together with other command line tools.
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