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timkay / aws

Easy command line access to Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, ELB, and SDB
http://timkay.com/aws/
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Documentation of meta-params? #73

Open rlpowell opened 10 years ago

rlpowell commented 10 years ago

I hope I'm missing something, but I can't find anything that documents meta-parameters. The only reason I even know about them is the "mispelled metaparameter" error, and by looking at the code, which isn't terrible helpful.

timkay commented 10 years ago

The documentation for "aws" is pretty far behind. It was a lot of work just keeping up with the AWS enhancements and changes, and I didn't do a good job of documenting.

These days, somebody asks me how to do something, and I add a page in the github wiki. How can I help you?

robe070 commented 10 years ago

If you want to list the meta-parameters, then aws action --help. E.g. aws describe-db-instances --help If you want to know what each meta-parameter does then google aws command-action e.g. aws rds-describe-db-instances. Usually the first result is the one you want. It must have the command on the front of the action, not just the action. describe-db-instances without rds on the front is not the most useful page.