Probably some day this week I'll open a PR in terraform's repo for supporting state and plan files from stdin in

terraform show

command as we discussed the importance of this in this issue. Even if we decide to bundle terraform-exec into infracost, i think that would still be valuable for other use-cases and tools. Anyone wanna jump-in?

I’m taking part in a live “Your Weekly Dose of Terraform” episode tmrw () but have time in the afternoon if I can help with any testing or idea-bouncing if that’s helpful

@white-airport-8778 I don't think its gonna work as we expect,

terraform show

needs the providers and backend initialized before marshalling to json... Even pipeing the plan to

terraform show

stdin would need the user to call the command from cwd where the .terraform folder is (as well as having the terraform binary installed)

Unfortunately not but @little-author-61621 is probably best to answer as he knows that side of the code better than me

Just for context, the 

show

 commands needs the providers schemas to be able to marshall the plans/state files

Could https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-schema help?

@little-author-61621 Yes, seems like it! lets move this discussion to the issue, shall we? https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/811#issuecomment-864991073 good morning!