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by failmode 7y ago
They're good questions. I can tell you how I manage regions and accounts but am interested in learning how people think Bash-my-AWS might better support users in this regard. The AWCLI, as well as SDKs all support grabbing Regions and
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by failmode 7y ago
I don't like to rely on my memory either! I forget the names of commands and use tab completion to list them. You can just type bma[TAB][TAB] and it will list them all. If you know the type of resource you are working with, you can use
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by failmode 7y ago
bash-my-github and bash-my-spotify are two things I've made a start on but are not public yet. They've been on the backburner for a while due to competing priorities. I was able to write a simple command that returned all songs a
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by failmode 7y ago
AWSCLI backward compatibility has been so good, I've never had a Bash-My-AWS command fail due to a change. AWS CLI v2 previews were released in Nov 19 and while this may contain some breaking changes, I wouldn't be surprised if al
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by failmode 7y ago
I have sometimes questioned whether I should be spending my personal time developing an open source tool so tied to a single companies services. My reasons for continuing include: - I prefer to use command line over ClickOps - Using Bash-My
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by failmode 7y ago
Thanks! The intent has always been to enhance rather than replace AWCLI (which is an amazing tool!). If you're ever wondering how a Bash-My-AWS command works, use `bma type` (it even supports tab completion for all the commands). $
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by failmode 7y ago
Windows users have commented at how Bash-My-AWS's innovative use of unix streams reminds them of PowerShell. The listing functions output lines of tokens. The first token is the resource identifier. Piping that output into functions fo
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by failmode 7y ago
AWSCLI is amazingly flexible and powerful. Bash-My-AWS thinly wraps AWSCLI commands that would otherwise be too long to type. So you're still using AWSCLI and can improve your skill with it by inspecting the source of Bash-My-AWS funct
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by failmode 7y ago
Bash-My-AWS wraps AWSCLI as thinly as possible and makes use of JMESPath and the text output. The result is you have a simple set of commands that don't require you to type hundreds of characters. instances() { local instance_i
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by failmode 7y ago
jq is only used in three of the >120 functions (for sort-keys functionality). All the rest use JMESPath. If anyone can help with a solution I'd be delighted to remove the dependency on jq. https://github.com/bash-my-