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Bash-my-AWS provides simple but powerful CLI commands for managing AWS resources

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Prefix for aliases/functions?

wlonkly opened this issue · comments

commented

I've just discovered bash-my-aws, and I love the approach and how easy it is to work with. One challenge I've had while discovering it is knowing what commands are available!

I updated my own copy of .bash-my-aws/aliases to add an bma- prefix onto every alias, which means I can use bash command completion to go bma-[tab] and get a list of 'em all. I was thinking it might be useful to make arbitrary alias prefixes a feature.

The idea is that source .bash-my-aws/aliases would work as now, and source .bash-my-aws/aliases bma- would get you bma-instances, bma-asgs, etc.

The same would go for bash_completion.sh. (Of course, you'd have to provide bash_completion.sh and aliases the same prefix.)

Thoughts? Would this be welcome? It would be a tiny build script tweak, I figure, plus docs.

commented

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you like it too.

When I type bma-[tab] I get a list of all the commands. It's a neat feature @ninth-dev included when he worked on the aliases (to ensure it all works for people who use zsh).

$ bma 
Display all 159 possibilities? (y or n)

Could you check whether this works for you?

There's also a documentation site I wrote over the Christmas holidays which might be helpful:

https://bash-my-aws.org/command-reference/

If you're interested in contributing, perhaps you could create a small PR that inserts a suggestion to use bma-[tab] to list top level commands?

commented

Ah, I was relying on command/alias completion and not argument completion! That totally meets my needs. I'll make that doc change.