aws codecommit put-file not working properly

Question

I'm trying to push individual files to a CodeCommit repository following the instructions at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/how-to-create-file.html with AWS CLI. My command reads:
`aws codecommit put-file --repository-name MY_REPOSITORY --branch-name main --file-content my_file_name.py --file-path GUI/my_file_name.py --parent-commit-id a7ddbb7a99dd37c9e2c5fe378eba1187xxxxxxxx  --name "Name" --email "my-email" --commit-message "Adding file from EC2 instance."
`
The problem is that it creates the file but the content of the file is NOT the content of my_file_name.py (a bunch of python lines) but the only line of the new file reads literally *my_file_name.py*.
Thanks.

Accepted Answer

To correctly upload the content of my_file_name.py, you should use the file:// prefix with the --file-content parameter, which tells the AWS CLI to read the content from the specified file. Your command should look like this:

```
aws codecommit put-file \
    --repository-name MY_REPOSITORY \
    --branch-name main \
    --file-content file://path/to/my_file_name.py \
    --file-path GUI/my_file_name.py \
    --parent-commit-id a7ddbb7a99dd37c9e2c5fe378eba1187xxxxxxxx \
    --name "Name" \
    --email "my-email" \
    --commit-message "Adding file from EC2 instance."

```

aws codecommit put-file not working properly

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