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HMLDude
HMLDude

Reputation: 1637

Cannot Launch Amazon AWS CLI from Command Line on Mac

I followed all the instructions provided by Amazon for installing AWS CLI found here:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-install-macos.html

My machine is running the Zsh Shell. So in step three I edited .zshrc instead of .bash_profile.

The error message I am receiving is 

zsh: command not found: aws

Here is how the .zshrc file looks now.

export PATH="$HOME/.bin:$PATH"

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

eval "$(hub alias -s)"

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin" # Add RVM to PATH for scripting

I believe that the export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH might be redundant given the line above it that was already in place.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6751

Answers (2)

Bhaskar Reddy
Bhaskar Reddy

Reputation: 91

I followed instructions at: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-implement-federated-api-and-cli-access-using-saml-2-0-and-ad-fs/.

I can confirm that I do have oh-my-zsh on my mac, and I performed the following installs :

pip install boto
pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4

prior to creating the requested credentials file under ~/.aws folder.

Also, my credentials file had:

[default]
output = json
region = us-west-2
aws_access_key_id =
aws_secret_access_key =
aws_session_token =

Upvotes: 0

HMLDude
HMLDude

Reputation: 1637

OK, so I got it working...

First I switched from zsh to bash shell via the terminal command:

exec bash

Then I ran:

pip --version

Just to confirm that pip and Python where both in fact installed and working.

From here I ran:

brew install awscli

This was the critical missing ingredient that I did not have on my first run through.

At the end of the install process Amazon prints to screen a list of "Caveats" for completing installation.

According to the Caveats I took the following two steps...

First, added the following to ~/.bashrc to enable bash completion:

complete -C aws_completer aws

Then added the following to ~/.zshrc to enable zsh completion:

source /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_aws

Now I am able to run the command "aws" via either shell.

Upvotes: 18

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