name : get-thing-shadow.rst **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*.