Unable to find .aws directory

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Kosmos Nagios picture Kosmos Nagios · Sep 27, 2017 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

By default python 2.75 is installed in my machine and I installed boto3 and awcli using pip install awscli boto3 -U --ignore-installed six command. And it got installed fine, I checked,but there I can't find .aws directory in my home directory. I tried to find using locate and find commands but no use. I want to know where that directory is to add a new profile to the credentials file in the .aws directory

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Mark B picture Mark B · Sep 27, 2017

You have to run aws configure to have it create the ~/.aws directory.

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