Terraform wrapper for temporarily disable 'prevent_destroy = true'

terraform-skip-prevent-destroy.sh

#!/bin/sh

BASE_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
_cleanup() {
  find "${BASE_DIR}" -type f -name "*.tf" -exec sh -c 'sed -i "s@prevent_destroy = false #REPLACED@prevent_destroy = true@g" $1' shell {} \;
}
_replace_prevent_destroy() {
  find "${BASE_DIR}" -type f -name "*.tf" -exec sh -c 'sed -i "s@prevent_destroy = true@prevent_destroy = false #REPLACED@g" $1' shell {} \;
}

_main() {
  trap _cleanup EXIT # always cleanup, even when crashing

  _replace_prevent_destroy
  terraform "$@"
  # sleep 300 # Test the cleanup by uncommenting this out and then ctrl+C the process
}

if [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then
  echo "Usage: this is just a terraform wrapper."
  echo "       Consider '$0' as an alias for 'terraform'"
  echo "       The only difference is that it will remove temporarily all 'prevent_destroy = true'"
  echo "       and restore it after the command has finished"
else
  _main "$@"
fi