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docs(terraform): Default suggest jq for plan scans #5461

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10 changes: 1 addition & 9 deletions docs/7.Scan Examples/Terraform Plan Scanning.md
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Expand Up @@ -15,19 +15,11 @@ Checkov supports the evaluation of policies on resources declared in `.tf` files
```json
terraform init
terraform plan --out tfplan.binary
terraform show -json tfplan.binary > tfplan.json
terraform show -json tfplan.binary | jq > tfplan.json

checkov -f tfplan.json
```

Note: The Terraform show output file `tf.json` will be a single line. For that reason Checkov will report all findings as line number 0.
If you have installed jq, you can convert a JSON file into multiple lines making it easier to read the scan result.

```json
terraform show -json tfplan.binary | jq '.' > tfplan.json

checkov -f tfplan.json
```

The output would look like:
```
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