Windows users have commented at how Bash-My-AWS's innovative use of unix streams reminds them of PowerShell.

The listing functions output lines of tokens. The first token is the resource identifier. Piping that output into functions for that resource type results in the resource IDs only being used.

  $ instances
  i-03dfa28fc8235df7b  t3.nano  running  prometheus  2019-12-31T14:10:45.000Z  ap-southeast-2a  vpc-9def06f8
  i-0fd7a4c81051f2718  t3.nano  running  huginn      2019-12-31T14:10:44.000Z  ap-southeast-2a  vpc-9def06f8
  i-0abcd6e9c302f35bb  t3.nano  running  rails-demo  2019-12-31T14:10:47.000Z  ap-southeast-2b  vpc-9def06f8

  $ instances | grep rails-demo | instance-asg | asg-capacity
  rails-demo-AutoScalingGroup-14SBR6O3W1FBL  0  1  2

  $ instances | grep rails-demo | instance-asg | asg-
  asg-capacity              asg-launch-configuration  asg-processes_suspended   asg-stack
  asg-desired-size-set      asg-max-size-set          asg-resume                asg-suspend
  asg-instances             asg-min-size-set          asg-scaling-activities

  $ instances | grep rails-demo | instance-asg | asg-desired-size-set 2
  $ instances | grep rails-demo | instance-asg | asg-capacity
  rails-demo-AutoScalingGroup-14SBR6O3W1FBL  0  2  2