EC2-DESCRIBE-ADDRESSES(1)

📦 version 1.6.14.1, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 EC2-DESCRIBE-ADDRESSES 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the EC2 API command line tools manual — section 1, user commands, the whole vibe — and today we're learning ec2-describe-addresses. she's the one who tells you about your elastic IPs. let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ec2-describe-addresses — List and elastic IP addresses 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ec2daddr ([ec2-describe-addresses])
ec2daddr [GENERAL OPTIONS] [ { IP | ALLOCATION } [ { IP | ALLOCATION } [...]]]

so yeah, ec2daddr is her cute little nickname, and you can also call her ec2-describe-addresses. same girl, different name, main character energy ✨

🌸 GENERAL NOTES 🌸

lowkey important: any command option or parameter can be handed a value of -, and that means "bestie, read the values for this option from stdin." it's giving "i don't wanna type it, pipe it in" 😌

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what does she actually do? she lists and describes your allocated elastic IP addresses. periodt.

the IP parameter is how you say which IP(s) you wanna hear about.

if you don't specify anything at all? no worries. every single address allocated to you gets returned. she's generous like that 💖

🌈 GENERAL OPTIONS 🌈

these are the options that show up for basically every tool in the family, so learn them once and you're set fr fr.

  • -O, --aws-access-key KEY — your AWS Access Key ID. defaults to whatever's in the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable (if it's set). 👑
  • -W, --aws-secret-key KEY — your AWS Secret Access Key. defaults to the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable (if set). keep this one secret bestie, no cap 🔒
  • -T, --security-token TOKEN — AWS delegation token. defaults to the value of the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN environment variable (if set). 🎀
  • -K, --private-key KEY — [DEPRECATED] specify KEY as the private key to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). overrides the default. she's old, she's deprecated, but she's still here 💀
  • -C, --cert CERT — [DEPRECATED] specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if set). overrides the default. also deprecated, also still hanging around 🙈
  • -U, --url URL — specify URL as the web service URL to use. defaults to the value of https://ec2.amazonaws.com (us-east-1), or to that of the EC2_URL environment variable (if set). overrides the default. 🌍
  • --region REGION — specify REGION as the web service region to use. this option will override the URL specified by the -U URL option and the EC2_URL environment variable. it defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable, or us-east-1 if that environment variable isn't set. she's bossy like that 💅
  • -D, --auth-dry-run — check whether you can perform the requested action, instead of actually performing it. it's a vibe check for your permissions ✨
  • -v, --verbose — verbose output. she talks more. we love that 🌸
  • -?, --help — display this help. classic 🫶
  • -H, --headers — display column headers. labels on, bestie 🏷️
  • --debug — display additional debugging information. for when you need to know everything 🔍
  • --show-empty-fields — indicate empty fields. no silent blanks here 🙈
  • --hide-tags — do not display tags for tagged resources. tags? gone. not today 💀
  • --connection-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds). ⏱️
  • --request-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds). ⏱️

🎀 SPECIFIC OPTIONS 🎀

the special one, just for this command:

  • -F, --filter FILTER — add a filter criterion for the result-set. narrow it down, bestie, be picky 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read the docs, i know you want to:

and that's the whole page, bestie. go describe some addresses. slay 💅✨

okay bye ilysm 🫶 this was brought to you by EC2 API command line tools 1.6.14.1, api=2014-05-01 — yes that's the version and the date, iconic, no notes 🌈⭐

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