I retrieve data about my current Amazon EC2 instances with ec2-describe-instances -H, which returns something like the following:
Type ReservationID Owner Groups Platform
RESERVATION r-xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx default
INSTANCE i-xxxxxxxx ami-2b5fba42 ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal running user 0 m1.small 2011-07-12T21:15:39+0000 us-east-1a aki-xxxxxxxx ari-xxxxxxxx monitoring-disabled xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx.xx instance-store paravirtual xen sg-xxxxxxxx default
This looks messy in the OS X terminal. How can I make this output more readable?
I just whipped up a little bash/awk script you might be interested in:
https://github.com/epheph/fec2din
It displays EC2 instance output in the format of:
Instance: i-57192e11
AMI: ami-a7f539ce
Type: t1.micro
Public IP: 50.99.41.60 (ec2-50-99-41-60.compute-1.amazonaws.com)
Private IP: 10.99.241.197
Public Key: production
Start Time: 2011-11-09
Security Group: production
Block Devices:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sdj
/dev/sdk