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February 26, 2018 15:15
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This changes PS1 on the AWS EC2 instance to show the instance's name (instead of the meaningless internal hostname)
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| # Borrowed from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18338585/how-to-get-the-instance-name-from-the-instance-in-aws | |
| # This requires AWS CLI to be installed in the instance | |
| INSTANCE_ID=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id` | |
| INSTANCE_NAME=`aws ec2 describe-tags --filters Name=resource-id,Values=$INSTANCE_ID --query Tags[].Value --output text` | |
| export PS1="[\u@$INSTANCE_NAME \W]\\$ " |
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