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AWSCLI cli_pager

In AWSCLI Version 2, it’s using “less” by default to send output to the screen. Less displays output one page at a time.

If less interferes with your script, then you can set “cli_pager” in ~/.aws/config to use nothing.

[default]
region = us-east-2
output = json
cli_pager =

If you have other profiles, add them as well.

[lightsail]
region = us-east-2
output = json
cli_pager =

GCP Display Device Names on OS

In GCP console you can see the VM’s Device Names. In this case, it’s boot and persistent-disk-1.

Name		          Device name
server-boot               boot	
server-data               persistent-disk-1

To display the volume names on the OS, run this command.

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug  2 01:12 google-boot -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Aug  2 01:12 google-boot-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug 18 18:48 google-persistent-disk-1 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug  2 01:12 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_boot -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Aug  2 01:12 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_boot-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug 18 18:48 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_persistent-disk-1 -> ../../sdb

As you can see, boot and persistent-disk-1 are displayed along with its device names /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.

Check Open Ports Remotely

Here are a few tools to check if ports are open from a remote host.

nc -zvw10 192.168.0.1 22
nmap 192.168.0.1 -p 22
telnet 192.168.0.1 22

You may have to install netcat and nmap if missing in your distro.

yum install nc
yum install nmap