Need "no quotes" string option for JMESPAth output

[SteveALee]

Is there a way to lose the quotes in returned string values?

In order to use output such as the IdentityPoolId from cognito-identity create-identity-pool on the command line the quotes need to me removed.

JMSEPath jp includes an -u/--unquoted option or we can set export JP_UNQUOTED=true

neither work with AWS. Can you please implement?

[SteveALee]

For now I'm using

IDENTITY_POOL_ID="${IDENTITY_POOL_ID%\"}";IDENTITY_POOL_ID="${IDENTITY_POOL_ID#\"}"

[kyleknap]

You can do this now with the --output text option. For example, try something like this:

$ aws cognito-identity create-identity-pool --identity-pool-name foo --allow-unauthenticated-identities --query IdentityPoolId --output text
us-east-1:96339a84-0d20-4e67-9b87-fe1f1f854f00

It should output the id that you want without the quotes. Let us know if that helps.

[SteveALee]

AH, OK thanks will give it a go. I had assume the text output would be ALL the same info as in the json. Ie more than just the ID.

[JordonPhillips]

@SteveALee Correct, it shows all the same information.

[SteveALee]

Gotit --query IdentityPoolId filters even if not JSON output. Effectively -output text reformats the json output.

[SteveALee]

@JordonPhillips @kyleknap

Yes --output text is perfect. I obviously made invalid assumptions about output formats and relation to the --query option. My bad. It turns out I even forgot to specify the output format at all. I don't see the default specified. I guessed JSON.

[nitrocode]

I know this is an old thread but it popped up on google so I thought I'd add to the conversation.

The --output text works for most use-cases but if any of the output contains multi line string data with \n chars, if you use --output text, you lose the new lines.

I use the following for multi line information.

• sed to remove the quotations
• echo to turn the \n chars into new lines

echo $(aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id my-client-pem --query SecretString | sed 's,",,g') > client.pem

with jq and its flag -r for raw, we can drop the echo and the sed command

aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id my-client-pem | jq -r '.SecretString' > client.pem

It would be nice if the awscli supported a native -r raw output like jq does.

[lvkins]

Be careful using --output text as it changes how --query operates, see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-filter.html#cli-usage-filter-client-side

Important
The output type you specify changes how the --query option operates:

If you specify --output text, the output is paginated before the --query filter is applied, and the AWS CLI runs the query once on each page of the output. Due to this, the query includes the first matching element on each page which can result in unexpected extra output. To additionally filter the output, you can use other command line tools such as head or tail.

If you specify --output json, --output yaml, or --output yaml-stream the output is completely processed as a single, native structure before the --query filter is applied. The AWS CLI runs the query only once against the entire structure, producing a filtered result that is then output.

You can can combine AWS cli command with jq in order to strip the double quotes:

aws [...] --query 'yourItem' | jq -r