Aliases in aws-alias.sh two sets of quotes around instance id

Part 1 (2017)
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When I run aws-start, I get this error:

An error occurred (InvalidInstanceID.Malformed) when calling the StartInstances operation: Invalid id: "“i-0972dcf72eaa51586"” (expecting “i-…”)

The value of the exported environment variable from aws-get-p2 is quoted, which may be the problem.

echo $instanceId
"i-0972dcf72eaa51586"

–Peter G

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I had the same problem. When I ran “aws configure” I forgot to set output type to “text”. Fixing this got rid of the quotes.

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How you got rid of the quotes?

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While switching output type from aws configure will achieve this, you could also get rid of the quotes by piping the output from the aws cli through tr:

For example:

alias aws-get-p2='export instanceId=`aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=instance-state-name,Values=stopped,Name=instance-type,Values=p2.xlarge" --query "Reservations[0].Instances[0].InstanceId"  | tr -d \"\"\"` && echo $instanceId'
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