SUsuperasn·Feb 3, 2020Submission
An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI
1 points · Open discussionawslabs
aws-shell
Python2015–2020
awslabs / aws-shell
aws-shell
An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI.
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An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI.
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Currently I'm using: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell and I love it
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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9 sourcesThis is an interesting accommodation to less terminal savvy users. I'm not interested personally. But, it's an interesting concept.
In fact, I think it would be an interesting thing to standardize, like super-completion.
Someone else in this thread mentioned that Amazon is working on a similar interactive shell [0], and there is a whole group of tools like this for database CLI's [1], including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, and VerticaDB.
It's a shame that each of these projects have to somewhat re-invent the wheel (though prompt-toolkit does a lot of heavy lifting [2]). And it's even more of a shame that each of these tools require a seperate environment. So, you have to exit Google's interactive shell to do something in AWS.
[0] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell
[1] https://www.dbcli.co
[2] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-pro
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AWS also has something similar called AWS Shell: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell
In Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLIIt's a pretty neat tool. I've played around with it a lot, and it's used in the aws-shell[0] to a very similar effect as the OP. (Disclaimer: I work for aws and have contributed to the aws-shell.)
[0]: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell
In Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLICurrently I'm using: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell and I love it
In Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWSIndeed it does, https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell/blob/master/setup.py#L1...
Python Prompt Toolkit is pretty stellar, enough so to motivated writing a command line interface in Python instead of another language in my opinion.
In AWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLIAWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI
153 points · Open discussionThere's also a similar project (SAWS [0]), but they seem to be merging eventually [1].
[0]: https://github.com/donnemartin/saws
[1]: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell/issues/18
In AWS-Shell – An Integrated Shell for Working with the AWS CLIAWS-Shell – An Integrated Shell for Working with the AWS CLI
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