feature request: terraform state rm option to remove all resources created with a given provider

[navi86]

Hi there, I think command "terraform rm module.${provider_name}" should remove all resources created with that provider. Terraform v0.12.9

Use-cases

I have some helm chart created using provider helm_release

Attempted Solutions

I can delete resources if I specify full path to resource. example terraform rm module.helm_release.dex

Proposal

"terraform rm module.${provider_name}" should remove all resources for defined provider

[ghost]

terraform state list | xargs -L 1 terraform state rm

[remoe]

terraform state list | cut -f 1 -d '[' | xargs -L 1 terraform state rm

[dmccaffery]

or, without locking state between each resource:

terraform state list | cut -f 1 -d '[' | xargs -L 0 terraform state rm

[sann05]

also worked for me:

terraform state rm $(terraform state list | grep aws_instance)

[arash-bizcover]

On terragrunt, this worked for me

terragrunt state list | sed 's/"/\\"/g' | xargs -I {} terragrunt state rm {}

[erpel]

If using for_each with values or keys that might contain spaces, apply shell escaping for these too. The -I {} was not needed with macOs 13.5 xargs (from FreeBSD)

terraform state list | sed 's/"/\\"/g;s/ /\\ /g'  | xargs terragrunt state rm

Be careful with all of these examples, as using the output of terraform state list unfiltered will work on all resources.

[elliotdickison]

If like me you're terrified of wrecking everything on accident, state rm has a helpful -dry-run flag

[yurinogueira]

Just use

terraform state rm $(terraform state list)