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AWS EC2 Describe Snapshots

Here’s how to describe snapshots using query with tags.

aws ec2 describe-snapshots \
--owner-ids xxxxxxxxxxx \
--profile default \
--region us-east-2 \
--output text \
--query "Snapshots[*].[SnapshotId,Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value[] | [0]]"

Result.

snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	Server1
snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	Server2

Split A Large File

How to split a large file. 

split -b 500MB httpd.log
ll -lh
total 1.9G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954M Mar 25 12:35 httpd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477M Mar 25 12:38 xaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477M Mar 25 12:38 xab

Split with an output file.

split -b 200M httpd.log split.log
ll -lh
total 1.9G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954M Mar 25 12:35 httpd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logad
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154M Mar 25 12:52 split.logae

AWS CLI EC2 Describe Tags

Here’s how to get a list of EC2 tags.

aws ec2 describe-tags \
--filters "Name=resource-id,Values=i-xxxxxxxxxxxxx" \
--query 'Tags[][Key,Value]'  \
--profile default \
--region us-east-1 \
--output text