Setting AWS CLI Profile to issue bash commands against AWS

Question

I am trying to setup the AWS env variables for AWS profiles before I run a bash script.

If do:

export profile=$(AWS_PROFILE=name)
aws configure list

and then I echo $profile it isn't setting the profile.

Answer 1

You could use:

export AWS_PROFILE=rodney
<call script here>

Alternatively, in the script you can specify a profile:

aws s3 ls --profile rodney