Running AWS cli command using Subprocess

Question

I am just trying out to see if it's valid to use AWS cli commands using subprocess module. Running the below command gives the successful output

vpc = subprocess.run("aws ec2 describe-vpcs | jq -r '.Vpcs[].VpcId'", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)

While running the with select statement in jq shown as below gives an error.

subnets = subprocess.run("aws ec2 describe-subnets | jq -r '.Subnets[] | select(.Tags[].Value == "az1") .SubnetId'", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)

error as

File "awsinit.py", line 42
    subnets = subprocess.run("aws ec2 describe-subnets | jq -r '.Subnets[] | select(.Tags[].Value == "az1") .SubnetId'", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
                                                                                                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any guide on fixing this or any other suggestion on this?

ultimate_muscle · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-04 19:42:12Z

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Fixing the quotation marks will help you solve the problem

subnets = subprocess.run('''aws ec2 describe-subnets | jq -r '.Subnets[] | select(.Tags[].Value == "az1") .SubnetId' ''', stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)

answered Dec 4, 2020 at 19:42

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algorythms Over a year ago

do you know how I can include variables inside the command?

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