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Shell command to generate `variables.tf` file in terraform

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Here is small script that can help generating the variables.tf file by reading other .tf files.

Warning, below command overwrites your current variables.tf file.

Terminal window
grep -oE "var\.(\w+)" main.tf | \
awk '!a[$0]++' | \
while IFS= read -r line; do echo $line | \
cut -d '.' -f 2 | \
awk '{print "variable \""$1"\" {\n  description = \"\"\n}\n"}' ; done > variables.tf