s3grep

s3grep is a grep for Amazon S3 that searches text files on an S3 bucket for specific content. The search is parallelised in order to yield good performance, using multiple connections to S3.

Usage

Search for straw in bucket 'mybucket', keys starting 'prefix':

 s3grep s3://mybucket/prefix straw

Supports regular expressions:

 s3grep s3://mybucket/prefix a.+b

To see all options:

 s3grep -h

Installation

 pip install s3grep

or:

 easy_install s3grep

from sources, the usual:

 sudo python setup.py install

AWS Credentials

Your credentials can be set through environment variables:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - Your AWS Access Key ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - Your AWS Secret Access Key

Alternatively they can be configured in the boto configuration file, in short, create ~/.boto with the content:

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = < your access key >
aws_secret_access_key = < your secret key >

Requirements:

• Python