EC2-DESCRIBE...RK-INTERFACES(1)
π EC2-DESCRIBE-NETWORK-INTERFACES π
okay bestie, so this is a page from the ec2-describe-network-interfaces manual β part of the User Commands set, and it's literally the glow-up guide for peeking at your network interfaces. it's giving "tell me everything about my NICs" energy and honestly? iconic. β¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
ec2-describe-network-interfaces β Gives you information about one or more network interfaces π
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
ec2dnic ([ec2-describe-network-interfaces])
ec2dnic [GENERAL OPTIONS] [ NETWORKINTERFACE ... ] [SPECIFIC OPTIONS]
β¨ GENERAL NOTES β¨
so here's a little universal truth, bestie: any command option or parameter can be handed a value of -, and that means "hey, read the values for this option from stdin instead." fr fr. π«Ά
π DESCRIPTION π
Gives you information about one or more network interfaces. π«
and if you actually pass in those NETWORKINTERFACE parameters? those are the IDs of the network interfaces you wanna describe. that's it, that's the vibe check. π
π GENERAL OPTIONS π
-O,--aws-access-key KEYβ your AWS Access Key ID, bestie. defaults to whatever theAWS_ACCESS_KEYenvironment variable is set to (if it's set at all, obviously π).-W,--aws-secret-key KEYβ your AWS Secret Access Key. defaults to the value of theAWS_SECRET_KEYenvironment variable (if set). keep this one secret, no cap. π€«-T,--security-token TOKENβ the AWS delegation token. defaults to the value of theAWS_DELEGATION_TOKENenvironment variable (if set). β¨-K,--private-key KEYβ [DEPRECATED] specifyKEYas the private key to use. defaults to the value of theEC2_PRIVATE_KEYenvironment variable (if set). it overrides the default. > heads up: this one is DEPRECATED, so don't get too attached π-C,--cert CERTβ [DEPRECATED] specifyCERTas the X509 certificate to use. defaults to the value of theEC2_CERTenvironment variable (if set). it overrides the default. > also DEPRECATED, bestie, just so you know π-U,--url URLβ specifyURLas the web service URL to use. defaults to the value of'https://ec2.amazonaws.com'(that's us-east-1) or to that of theEC2_URLenvironment variable (if set). overrides the default. π--region REGIONβ specifyREGIONas the web service region to use. this option will override the URL specified by the"-U URL"option and theEC2_URLenvironment variable. it defaults to the region specified by theEC2_URLenvironment variable, orus-east-1if that environment variable isn't set. lowkey the boss of the URL options. π-D,--auth-dry-runβ checks if you can perform the requested action instead of actually performing it. it's the "pretend" button, bestie. π§-v,--verboseβ verbose output. give me ALL the lore. π’-?,--helpβ Display this help. bestie behaviour, honestly. π«Ά-H,--headersβ Display column headers. label your columns, slay. π--debugβ Display additional debugging information. π--show-empty-fieldsβ Indicate empty fields. so nothing goes unnoticed. π--hide-tagsβ Do not display tags for tagged resources. bye tags. π--connection-timeout TIMEOUTβ Specify a connection timeoutTIMEOUT(in seconds). β°--request-timeout TIMEOUTβ Specify a request timeoutTIMEOUT(in seconds). β³
β SPECIFIC OPTIONS β
-F,--filter FILTERβ Add a filter criterion for the result-set. narrow it down, main character energy. π₯
π SEE ALSO π
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2014-05-01/CommandLineReferencehttp://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference
and that's the whole page, bestie!! π this was the EC2 API command line tools, version 1.6.14.1, api=2014-05 β go describe some network interfaces and be iconic about it. periodt. πβ¨π¦
π¦ where this page comes from
- ubuntu jammy: ec2-api-tools 1.6.14.1-0ubuntu1
- ubuntu noble: ec2-api-tools 1.6.14.1-0ubuntu2
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms