ec2-describe-keypairs

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2007-08-29

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ec2-describe-keypairs

Syntax

ec2-describe-keypairs [key_id ...]

Description

Describes the current state of each specified key. If no keys are specified, all keys owned by the current user are included in the output.

Options

Option Description Required

key_id

Names of one or more keys.

Example: gsg-keypair

No

Output

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

  • A output type identifier ("KEYPAIR")

  • Key pair identifier

  • Private key fingerprint

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example describes the state of the current keys:

$ ec2-describe-keypairs gsg-keypair
KEYPAIR gsg-keypair  1f:51:ae:28:bf:89:e9:d8:1f:25:5d:37:2d:7d:b8:ca:9f:f5:f1:6f

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