How to save output of AWS CLI in a variable?

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I want to save output of an AWS CLI in a variable and use that variable in another AWS CLI, what I did is as follows:

taskarn= aws ecs list-tasks --cluster  mycluster --service-name "myService" --region "eu-west-1" --output text | grep "arn" | tr -d '"'

echo  $taskarn;  //empty
aws ecs stop-task --cluster mycluster --task $taskarn --region "eu-west-1"

when I echo $taskarn, it is empty.

Any help would be appreciated.

Matrix · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-30 10:37:01Z

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I used the following command and it works fine:

taskarn=$(aws ecs list-tasks --cluster  mycluster --service-name "myservice" --region "eu-west-1" | grep "arn" | tr -d '"')
echo  $taskarn;

aws ecs stop-task --cluster mycluster --task $taskarn --region "eu-west-1"

answered May 30, 2018 at 10:37

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Yu Chen Over a year ago

When I run this, I get bash: [the-name-of-my-task-arn]: command not found error saved as the output to my variable

BartusZak Over a year ago

@Matrix How to access the values by keys?

helloV · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-25 19:53:17Z

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Use backquote to execute the command and assign the result to the variable.

taskarn=`aws ecs list-tasks --cluster  mycluster --service-name "myService" --region "eu-west-1" --output text | grep "arn" | tr -d '"'`

But the correct way is to use the --query option of the CLI to extract what you want.

answered May 25, 2018 at 19:53

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Suncatcher Over a year ago

and what if the result is a dictionary? how to access the values by keys?

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