terraform apply - how to use wildcard or range for indexes?

Question

I have 10 virtual machines to be re-created. I want to do it in 2 groups, first 5 machines [0-4] and second 5 machines [5-9]

terraform apply -replace=module.ci.azurerm_windows_virtual_machine.vm[0-4]

But it does not work, says:

│ Index key must be followed by a closing bracket.

Is there any way to use a wildcard, or point a group of machines in general in command above?

Answer 1

I don't know that you can specify ranges. On Linux, you can add a bash function such as from here.

A slight modification should work,

terraform-replace () {
    sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' | grep -o '# [^( ]* ' | grep '\.' | sed " s/^# /-replace '/; s/ $/'/; "
}

Then use it like this,

terraform plan | terraform-replace | grep 'azurerm_windows_virtual_machine.vm\[[0-4]\]' | xargs -r terraform apply -auto-approve