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terraform-docs/docs/reference/markdown.md
Poojitha Bikki 045707beee feat: Add new flag 'read-comments' to optionally process comments as description
fixes issue #552

- process description from comments

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- fix module tests

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- optionally read comments for output vars description

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- set default to true

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- run make docs

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- change option name

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- add option in doc generator; make docs

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- add config 'ReadComments'

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- Fix alphabetic order for 'ReadComments' setting

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- add read-comments in docs

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- add test for readcomments option

Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>

- update 'read-comments' flag description

Co-authored-by: Khosrow Moossavi <khos2ow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Poojitha Bikki <50849668+poojitha-bikki@users.noreply.github.com>
2021-09-24 18:04:39 -05:00

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title, description, menu, weight, toc
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markdown Generate Markdown of inputs and outputs
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Synopsis

Generate Markdown of inputs and outputs.

terraform-docs markdown [PATH] [flags]

Options

      --anchor       create anchor links (default true)
      --default      show Default column or section (default true)
      --escape       escape special characters (default true)
  -h, --help         help for markdown
      --hide-empty   hide empty sections (default false)
      --html         use HTML tags in genereted output (default true)
      --indent int   indention level of Markdown sections [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] (default 2)
      --required     show Required column or section (default true)
      --sensitive    show Sensitive column or section (default true)
      --type         show Type column or section (default true)

Inherited Options

  -c, --config string               config file name (default ".terraform-docs.yml")
      --footer-from string          relative path of a file to read footer from (default "")
      --header-from string          relative path of a file to read header from (default "main.tf")
      --hide strings                hide section [all, data-sources, footer, header, inputs, modules, outputs, providers, requirements, resources]
      --lockfile                    read .terraform.lock.hcl if exist (default true)
      --output-check                check if content of output file is up to date (default false)
      --output-file string          file path to insert output into (default "")
      --output-mode string          output to file method [inject, replace] (default "inject")
      --output-template string      output template (default "<!-- BEGIN_TF_DOCS -->\n{{ .Content }}\n<!-- END_TF_DOCS -->")
      --output-values               inject output values into outputs (default false)
      --output-values-from string   inject output values from file into outputs (default "")
      --read-comments               use comments as description when description is empty (default true)
      --recursive                   update submodules recursively (default false)
      --recursive-path string       submodules path to recursively update (default "modules")
      --show strings                show section [all, data-sources, footer, header, inputs, modules, outputs, providers, requirements, resources]
      --sort                        sort items (default true)
      --sort-by string              sort items by criteria [name, required, type] (default "name")

Subcommands

  • [terraform-docs markdown document]({{< ref "markdown-document" >}})
  • [terraform-docs markdown table]({{< ref "markdown-table" >}})