Sort Terraform Variables in Alphabetical Order

Copy of script can be found https://github.com/libre-devops/utils/blob/dev/scripts/terraform/tf-sort.sh

The script takes arguments as inputs, or defaults to reordering a file called input.tf and will sort your terraform variables in alphabetical order

Here is some handy examples below with various use cases:

Using curl with arguments

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libre-devops/utils/dev/scripts/terraform/tf-sort.sh | bash -s -- variables.tf sorted-vars.tf
  

Using wget with default behaviour

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libre-devops/utils/dev/scripts/terraform/tf-sort.sh | bash
  

Using wget with output.tf instead of input

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libre-devops/utils/dev/scripts/terraform/tf-sort.sh | bash -s -- output.tf output.tf
  

Create Aliases

You can also just make aliases to make this easier

Sort input.tf

echo "alias stfi='curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libre-devops/utils/dev/scripts/terraform/tf-sort.sh | bash -s -- input.tf input.tf'" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
  

Then:

stfi

Sort output.tf

echo "alias stfo='wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libre-devops/utils/dev/scripts/terraform/tf-sort.sh | bash -s -- output output.tf'" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
  

Then:

stfo

Source: quickstart/utils/scripts/linux/sort-terraform-variables.md