The CLI command get can be used to show the definition that is loaded in the server.
Get all suite node trees from the server and write to standard out.
ecflow_client --get
This gets the suite "s1" from the server, and writes to standard out. In both of the examples the output is fully parse-able
ecflow_client --get=/s1
To write the node tree state to standard output please use group option, i.e.
ecflow_client --get_state ecflow_client --get_state=/s1