profsel

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bmc profsel interactively selects an AWS profile and exports it as AWS_PROFILE in your current shell.

Usage #

bmc profsel              # Interactive profile selection
bmc profsel -p myprofile # Pre-select a profile by name
bmc profsel -l           # List all profiles in tabular format
bmc profsel --json       # Output selected profile as JSON

Shell integration required #

bmc profsel must be invoked through the shell wrapper for AWS_PROFILE to be set in your current shell. Install it once with:

bmc install-shell-integration

See Shell Integration for details.

JSON output #

--json outputs the selected profile as a JSON object:

{
  "source_profile": "technative-long-term",
  "profile_name": "technative-prod",
  "profile_arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/..."
}

Useful for scripting — pipe into jq or other tools.

Recent profiles #

The interactive picker shows recently used profiles at the top (last 10, labelled “recent”). History is stored in ~/.local/share/bmc/console-history.json.