Getting "(sensitive value)" from `terraform state show`, how can I uncensor the value?

Question

When I run I try to use terraform state show on variables flagged sensitive on some addresses I get

private_data = (sensitive value)

How can I get around this problem?

Answer 1

Unfortunately you can not. There is already a filed issue on this #32439.

Workaround

Until that's resolved you'll have to use

terraform show -json | jq QUERY

And learn how to query with jq to get what you want.