Home/ Questions/Q 6820021
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-26T21:22:30+00:00

I retrieve data about my current Amazon EC2 instances with ec2-describe-instances -H , which

  • 0

I retrieve data about my current Amazon EC2 instances with ec2-describe-instances -H, which returns something like the following:

Type    ReservationID   Owner   Groups  Platform
RESERVATION r-xxxxxxxx  xxxxxxxxxxxx    default
INSTANCE    i-xxxxxxxx  ami-2b5fba42    ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal running user    0       m1.small    2011-07-12T21:15:39+0000    us-east-1a  aki-xxxxxxxx    ari-xxxxxxxx        monitoring-disabled xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx.xx         instance-store          paravirtual xen     sg-xxxxxxxx default

This looks messy in the OS X terminal. How can I make this output more readable?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    I just whipped up a little bash/awk script you might be interested in:

    https://github.com/epheph/fec2din

    It displays EC2 instance output in the format of:

    Instance: i-57192e11
AMI: ami-a7f539ce
Type: t1.micro
Public IP: 50.99.41.60 (ec2-50-99-41-60.compute-1.amazonaws.com)
Private IP: 10.99.241.197
Public Key: production
Start Time: 2011-11-09
Security Group: production
Block Devices:
    /dev/sda1
    /dev/sdj
    /dev/sdk
    • 0