This tool provides a simple and powerful way to interact with the hosts in your Amazon Web Services account via the command line.

It provides a configurable text based interface of the status of your hosts similar to the AWS web console. An example of its usage appears below:

It gives you a choice of which host to connect to and invokes the proper ssh command:

It is up on rubygems.org so add it to your bundle in the Gemfile

gem 'claws'

or do it the old fashioned way:

gem install claws

After you have the gem installed you will need to initialize it to install a configuation file:

claws --init

Read more about the configuration file in this wiki post

Once the initial configuration is completed you can simply run claws from the command line:

claws

The full list of options includes:

Usage: claws [options]
    -d, --display-only               Display host status only and exit
    -c, --choice N                   Enter the number of the host to automatically connect to
    -i, --init                       Install the default configuration file for the application
    -s, --source S                   define the AWS source - default is ec2
    -v, --version                    Display the version number and exit

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