Parameters

tfsec can be run with no arguments and will act on the current folder.

For a richer experience, there are many additional command line arguments that you can make use of.

Argument	Short Code	Description
--code-theme string		Theme for annotated code. Either 'light' or 'dark'. (default "dark")
--concise-output		Reduce the amount of output and no statistics
--config-file string		Config file to use during run
--config-file-url string		Config file to download from a remote location. Must be json or yaml
--custom-check-dir string		Explicitly the custom checks dir location
--custom-check-url string		Download a custom check file from a remote location. Must be json or yaml
--debug		Enable debug logging (same as verbose)
--disable-grouping	-G	Disable grouping of similar results
--exclude string	-e	Provide comma-separated list of rule IDs to exclude from run.
--exclude-downloaded-modules		Remove results for downloaded modules in .terraform folder
--exclude-path strings		Folder path to exclude, can be used multiple times and evaluated in order of specification
--filter-results string		Filter results to return specific checks only (supports comma-delimited input).
--force-all-dirs		Don't search for tf files, include everything below provided directory.
--format string	-f	Select output format: lovely, json, csv, checkstyle, junit, sarif, text, markdown, html, gif. To use multiple formats, separate with a comma and specify a base output filename with --out. A file will be written for each type. The first format will additionally be written stdout. (default "lovely")
--help	-h	help for tfsec
--ignore-hcl-errors		Do not report an error if an HCL parse error is encountered
--include-ignored		Include ignored checks in the result output
--include-passed		Include passed checks in the result output
--migrate-ignores		Migrate ignore codes to the new ID structure
--minimum-severity string	-m	The minimum severity to report. One of CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW.
--no-code		Don't include the code snippets in the output.
--no-color		Disable colored output (American style!)
--no-colour		Disable coloured output
--no-ignores		Do not apply any ignore rules - normally ignored checks will fail
--no-module-downloads		Do not download remote modules.
--out string	-O	Set output file. This filename will have a format descriptor appended if multiple formats are specified with --format
--print-rego-input		Print a JSON representation of the input supplied to rego policies.
--rego-only		Run rego policies exclusively.
--rego-policy-dir string		Directory to load rego policies from (recursively).
--run-statistics		View statistics table of current findings.
--single-thread		Run checks using a single thread
--soft-fail	-s	Runs checks but suppresses error code
--tfvars-file strings		Path to .tfvars file, can be used multiple times and evaluated in order of specification
--update		Update to latest version
--var-file strings		Path to .tfvars file, can be used multiple times and evaluated in order of specification (same functionality as --tfvars-file but consistent with Terraform)
--verbose		Enable verbose logging (same as debug)
--version	-v	Show version information and exit
--workspace string	-w	Specify a workspace for ignore limits (default "default")

This list can also be found by running tfsec --help