Is there a way to append to subcommands like aws ec2?

Thanks!

In the following video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1dHtWa9-Q), there were three aliases that I thought were interesting.

aws authorize-my-ip
aws connect-ssh
aws auto-configure

What are the commands backing these aliases?

Hi there,

When I try to run command that have alias functions, I'm getting this:

'f' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Do you know what might be the issue that I'm getting this?

I am trying to use --profile in my alias, but awscli is not forwarding it. It would also be acceptable for me if it instead set AWS_PROFILE since that would make things work in most cases.

Example alias:

test-args =
  !f() {
    echo arguments: $*
    echo profile: $AWS_PROFILE
  }; f

Output:

$ aws test-args test --profile admin
arguments: test
profile:
$ aws test-args test --profile2 admin
arguments: test --profile2 admin
profile:

It would be great if I would get this result:

$ aws test-args test --profile admin
arguments: test
profile: admin

Thanks!

Edit: The same thing happens with --region.

Hi,
Awesome feature with the aliases, I really like it
Is there a way to get autocomplete for aliases, or will this be implemented later?

-Andreas Knifh

Is there a good way to pass command line options to aliases using functions? This would be very useful in supporting multiple profiles, regions, etc. , just seems a bit out of step with the support in the CLI and SDK.

QuickSight has an annoyance that it always requires the --aws-account-id parameter.

qs =
  !f() {
    AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=$(sts get-caller-identity --query="Account" --output=text)
    aws quicksight --aws-account-id="$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID" $*
  }; f

This is a great feature of the CLI, but it appears this repo has stagnated. Is there anyone managing this project?

While it's super-useful to add the "I need this now" feature, one needs some guidance to ensure some level of consistency.

Are there any other alias repos in existence?

• To ease organisation and allow specialisation: aliases may be named with a suffix (such as alias.ec2, alias.s3)
• To accelerate collaboration (say, by allowing easy merging of pull requests)

I've been a bit frustrated that I can't tab complete my aliases.

This test seems to indicate that it is by design, but why? https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/3db7be30dfdd76f4e322b83b67af3134ae0b32ac/tests/functional/docs/test_help_output.py#L457

Hi there,

When I used echo command in alias function, -n option is not used by echo as follows:

foo =
  !f() {
    echo -n 1
  }; f

$ aws foo
-n 1

But, ls command can use options successfully:

bar =
  !f() {
    ls
  }; f

baz =
  !f() {
    ls -l
  }; f

$ aws bar
file1	file2

$ aws baz
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 aibou  staff  0  3 16 15:20 file1
-rw-r--r--  1 aibou  staff  0  3 16 15:20 file2

It seems a bug but I can't understand why ONLY echo behave it...