class InitCommand

Language	Type name
.NET	Amazon.CDK.AWS.EC2.InitCommand
Java	software.amazon.awscdk.services.ec2.InitCommand
Python	aws_cdk.aws_ec2.InitCommand
TypeScript (source)	@aws-cdk/aws-ec2 » InitCommand

Extends InitElement

Command to execute on the instance.

Example

const handle = new ec2.InitServiceRestartHandle();
ec2.CloudFormationInit.fromElements(
   ec2.InitCommand.shellCommand('/usr/bin/custom-nginx-install.sh', { serviceRestartHandles: [handle] }),
   ec2.InitService.enable('nginx', { serviceRestartHandle: handle }),
);

Properties

Name	Type	Description
elementType	string	Returns the init element type for this element.

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elementType

Type: string

Returns the init element type for this element.

Methods

Name	Description
static argvCommand(argv, options?)	Run a command from an argv array.
static shellCommand(shellCommand, options?)	Run a shell command.

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static argvCommand(argv, options?)

public static argvCommand(argv: string[], options?: InitCommandOptions): InitCommand

Parameters

• argv string[]
• options InitCommandOptions

Returns

• InitCommand

Run a command from an argv array.

You do not need to escape space characters or enclose command parameters in quotes.

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static shellCommand(shellCommand, options?)

public static shellCommand(shellCommand: string, options?: InitCommandOptions): InitCommand

Parameters

• shellCommand string
• options InitCommandOptions

Returns

• InitCommand

Run a shell command.

Remember that some characters like &, |, ;, > etc. have special meaning in a shell and need to be preceded by a \ if you want to treat them as part of a filename.