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AWS CLi

aws-shell is a command line shell that provides auto-completion and documentation features for AWS services to help users of the AWS CLI. It allows execution of OS commands directly from the shell, export of CLI commands to a text editor, and fuzzy auto-completion for commands, options, and resources. File commands also make it easy to manage and sync files with S3 buckets.

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AWS CLi

aws-shell is a command line shell that provides auto-completion and documentation features for AWS services to help users of the AWS CLI. It allows execution of OS commands directly from the shell, export of CLI commands to a text editor, and fuzzy auto-completion for commands, options, and resources. File commands also make it easy to manage and sync files with S3 buckets.

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aws-shell (Developer Preview)

aws-shell is a command-line shell program that provides convenience and


productivity features to help both new and advanced users of the AWS Command Line
Interface. Key features include the following.

Fuzzy auto-completion for


Commands (e.g. ec2, describe-instances, sqs, create-queue)
Options (e.g. --instance-ids, --queue-url)
Resource identifiers (e.g. Amazon EC2 instance IDs, Amazon SQS queue URLs, Amazon
SNS topic names)
Dynamic in-line documentation
Documentation for commands and options are displayed as you type
Execution of OS shell commands
Use common OS commands such as cat, ls, and cp and pipe inputs and outputs without
leaving the shell
Export executed commands to a text editor
To find out more, check out the related blog post on the AWS Command Line Interface
blog.

Usage
The AWS Command Line Interface User Guide walks you through installing and
configuring the tool. After that, you can begin making calls to your AWS services
from the command line.
$ aws ec2 describe-instances

$ aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-1348636c

$ aws sns publish --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:546419318123:OperationsError


--message "Script Failure"

$ aws sqs receive-message --queue-url https://queue.amazonaws.com/546419318123/Test

You can get help on the command line to see the supported services,
$ aws help

the operations for a service,


$ aws autoscaling help
and the parameters for a service operation.
$ aws autoscaling create-auto-scaling-group help

File Commands for Amazon S3


New file commands make it easy to manage your Amazon S3 objects. Using familiar
syntax, you can view the contents of your S3 buckets in a directory-based listing.
$ aws s3 ls s3://mybucket

LastWriteTime Length Name

------------ ------ ----

PRE myfolder/

2013-09-03 10:00:00 1234 myfile.txt

You can perform recursive uploads and downloads of multiple files in a single
folder-level command. The AWS CLI will run these transfers in parallel for
increased performance.
$ aws s3 cp myfolder s3://mybucket/myfolder --recursive

upload: myfolder/file1.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/file1.txt

upload: myfolder/subfolder/file1.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/subfolder/file1.txt

A sync command makes it easy to synchronize the contents of a local folder with a
copy in an S3 bucket.
$ aws s3 sync myfolder s3://mybucket/myfolder --exclude *.tmp

upload: myfolder/newfile.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/newfile.txt

Supported Services

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