I am attempting to utilize the AWS CLI along with a for loop in bash to iteratively purge multiple SQS message queues. The bash script works almost as intended, the problem I am having is with the return value each time the AWS CLI sends a request. When the request is successful, it returns an empty value and opens up an interactive pager in the command line. I then have to manually type q to exit the interactive screen and allow the for loop to continue to the next iteration. This becomes very tedious and time consuming when attempting to purge a large number of queues.
Is there a way to configure AWS CLI to disable this interactive pager from popping up for every return value? Or a way to pipe the return values into a separate file instead of being displayed?
I have played around with configuring different return value types (text, yaml, JSON) but haven't had any luck. Also the --no-pagination parameter doesn't change the behavior.
Here's an example of the bash script I'm trying to run:
for x in 1 2 3; do
aws sqs purge-queue --queue-url https://sqs.<aws-region>.amazonaws.com/<id>/<env>-$x-<queueName>.fifo;
done
You can set the environment variable PAGER to "cat" to force awscli to not start up less:
PAGER=cat aws sqs list-queues
I set up as a shell alias to make my life easier:
# ~/.zshrc
alias aws="PAGER=cat aws"
Just running into this issue myself, I was able to disable the behaviour by invoking the aws cli as AWS_PAGER="" aws ....
Alternatively you could simply export AWS_PAGER="" at the top of your (bash) script.
Source: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/pull/4702#issue-344978525
You can disable pager either by exporting AWS_PAGER="" or by modifying you AWS cli config file.
export AWS_PAGER=""
### or update your ~/.aws/config with
[default]
cli_pager=
Alternatively, you can enable the default pager to output of less program as
export AWS_PAGER="less"
or corresponding config change.
I am using the aws cli v2 via docker and passing the --env AWS_PAGER="" on the docker run command fixed this issue for me on windows 10 using git bash.
I set it up as an alias as well so things work with jq.
How to set your docker env values:
Example alias:
docker run --rm -it -v c:/users/me/.aws:/root/.aws --env AWS_PAGER="" amazon/aws-cli
You can also use --no-cli-pager in AWS CLI version 2.
See the "Client-side pager" section here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-pagination.html
Inside your ~/.aws/config file, add:
cli_pager=