AWS-CLI - Can't find my config even through it exists

Question

I installed Amazon Command Line Tools (AWS-CLI) using:

pip install awscli

It installed successfully. I then created a file in this location: /opt/aws/aws_cred.txt

[default]
aws_access_key_id = XYZ
aws_secret_access_key = XYZ
region = XYZ

Then I ran this command:

export AWS_CONFIG_FILE=”/opt/aws/aws_cred.txt”

Then I get this when I try to run this command: aws ec2 describe-regions

botocore.exceptions.ConfigNotFound: The specified config file (”/opt/aws/aws_cred.txt”) could not be found.

What else could I do? Does it need to be executable, owned by a certain user, what? The file is definitely there but it can't find it.

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34134879/aws-the-config-profile-myname-could-not-be-found — Jason, Mar 19 '16 at 01:03

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '13 at 20:43

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export AWS_CONFIG_FILE=”/opt/aws/aws_cred.txt”

and

export AWS_CONFIG_FILE="/opt/aws/aws_cred.txt"

(Hint: one uses "smart" quotes.)

Edit: to be less oblique, your use of smart quotes is causing the problem.

answered Mar 25 '13 at 20:43

Mark Wagner

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '13 at 20:15

0

Have you tried searching for it?

find / -name aws_cred

answered Mar 25 '13 at 20:15

horte

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