puts 'Querying AWS command line..'
instanceids = Array.new
instancetypes = Array.new
output = Array.new
system('aws ec2 describe-instances >output.txt')
rawfile = File.open('output.txt', 'r')
rawfile.each do |l|
output.push(l)
end
i = 0
output.each do |line|
if line =~ /InstanceId\": \"(i-........)\",/ then
instanceids[i] = $1
print "InstanceID: #{instanceids[i]} "
# find the next occurance of instancetype and break out
subarray = output[i+1..output.length]
subarray.each do |info|
if info =~ /InstanceType\": \"(.*)\",/ then
instancetypes[i] = $1
puts "Type: #{instancetypes[i]}"
break
end
end
end
i += 1
end
