The Amazon EC2 command line tools provide a command line interface to the web service API. This section describes each tool and its command line arguments in detail.
Command line options and arguments are based on the GNU getopt conventions. Parameters are invoked using flags, which typically come in short and long form. In their short form, flags use a single character preceded by a dash. In their long form, flags use a more expressive name preceded by two dashes.
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Some common options apply to all command line tools. These are described in Common Options for AMI Tools and Common Options for API Tools. and are not included in the description of the specific tools. Any service errors encountered by the command line tools are passed straight through from the API. For more information about these errors, see API Error Codes. |