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docs	Command: validate	docs-commands-validate	The `terraform validate` command is used to validate the format and structure of the terraform files.

Command: verify

The terraform validate command is used to validate the syntax of the terraform files. Terraform performs a syntax check on all the terraform files in the directory, and will display an error if the file(s) doesn't validate.

These errors include:

• Interpolation in variable values, depends_on, module source etc.

• Duplicate names in resource, modules and providers.

• Missing variable values.

Usage

Usage: terraform validate [dir]

By default, validate requires no flags and looks in the current directory for the configurations.