To get a thing shadow document

The following get-thing-shadow example gets the thing shadow document for the specified IoT thing.

aws iot-data get-thing-shadow \
    --thing-name MyRPi \
    output.txt

The command produces no output on the display, but the following shows the contents of output.txt:

{
  "state":{
    "reported":{
    "moisture":"low"
    }
  },
  "metadata":{
    "reported":{
      "moisture":{
        "timestamp":1560269319
      }
    }
  },
  "version":1,"timestamp":1560269405
}

For more information, see Device Shadow Service Data Flow in the AWS IoT Developers Guide.