| **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 <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/device-shadow-data-flow.html>`__ in the *AWS IoT Developers Guide*. | |