terraform plan output redirection to file does not capture error messages-CodePudding

I had previously successfully captured terraform plan outputs to a file by using the unix output redirections like this:

tf plan -no-color > plan.txt

When my plan (or apply) has errors, the output text file is empty although I see the error messages in the terminal output.

How can I capture output even in the cases there are errors?

CodePudding user response：

If you want to redirect everything you can do the following:

tf plan -no-color > plan.txt 2>&1

CodePudding user response：

Terraform has a built in variable TF_LOG_PATH to redirect all output including errors to a specific file. You don't need to redirect the output.

example:

export TF_LOG_PATH=/mydirectory/mylogfile.log
terraform plan