debian man page for txaws-discover

TXAWS-DISCOVER(1)						   User Commands						 TXAWS-DISCOVER(1)

NAME
       txaws-discover - txAWS AWS API discovery tool

SYNOPSIS
       txaws-discover [--key KEY] [--secret SECRET] [--endpoint ENDPOINT]

DESCRIPTION
       Purpose: Invoke an EC2 API method with arbitrary parameters.

	      --action ACTION [PARAMETERS, ...]

OPTIONS
       --key  The AWS access key to use when making the API request.

       --secret
	      The AWS secret key to use when making the API request.

       --endpoint
	      The region endpoint to make the API request against.

       --action
	      The name of the EC2 API to invoke.

       -h, --help
	      Show help message.

   Description:
       The purpose of this program is to aid discovery of the EC2 API.
	      It can run

       any EC2 API method, with arbitrary parameters.
	      The response received from

	      the  backend  cloud is printed to the screen, to show exactly what happened in response to the request.  The --key, --secret, --end-
	      point and --action command-line arguments are required.  If AWS_ENDPOINT,  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID  or	AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY  environment
	      variables are defined the corresponding options can be omitted and the values defined in the environment variables will be used.

	      Any additional parameters, beyond those defined above, will be included with the request as method parameters.

EXAMPLES
	      The  following  examples	omit  the --key, --secret and --endpoint command-line arguments for brevity.  They must be included unless
	      corresponding values are available from the environment.

	      Run the DescribeRegions method, without any optional parameters:

	      txaws-discover --action DescribeRegions

	      Run the DescribeRegions method, with an optional RegionName.0 parameter:

	      txaws-discover --action DescribeRegions --RegionName.0 us-west-1

txaws-discover 0.2.3						     May 2012							 TXAWS-DISCOVER(1)