---
name: "euca-describe-groups"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "euca2ools"
version: "3.3.1-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/euca-describe-groups"
---

# euca-describe-groups(1)

Show information about security groups

## NAME

euca-describe-groups - Show information about security groups

## SYNOPSIS

euca-describe-groups \[--show-empty-fields\] \[-U URL\]

- \[--region USER@REGION\] \[-I KEY\_ID\] \[-S KEY\]

  \[--security-token TOKEN\] \[--filter NAME=VALUE\] \[--debug\] \[--debugger\] \[--version\] \[-h\] \[GROUP \[GROUP ...\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

Show information about security groups

## DESCRIPTION

Note that filters are matched on literal strings only, so "--filter ip-permission.from-port=22" will \*not\* match a group with a port range of 20 to 30.

### positional arguments:

- GROUP

  limit results to specific security groups

### optional arguments:

- **--show-empty-fields**

  show empty values as "(nil)"

- **-U** URL, **--url** URL

  compute service endpoint URL

- **--region** USER@REGION

  region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

**-I** KEY\_ID, **--access-key-id** KEY\_ID

**-S** KEY, **--secret-key** KEY

**--security-token** TOKEN

- **--filter** NAME=VALUE

  restrict results to those that meet criteria

- **--debug**

  show debugging output

- **--debugger**

  launch interactive debugger on error

- **--version**

  show the program's version and exit

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

### allowed filter names:

- description

  group description group-id group-name ip-permission.cidr    CIDR IP range granted permission by the group ip-permission.from-port

- start of TCP/UDP port range, or ICMP type

  number

- ip-permission.group-name

  name of another group granted permission by this group

- ip-permission.group-id

  ID of another group granted permission by this group

- ip-permission.protocol

  IP protocol for the permission

- ip-permission.to-port

  end of TCP/UDP port range, or ICMP code

- ip-permission.user-id

  ID of an account granted permission

- owner-id

  account ID of the group's owner

- tag-key

  key of a tag assigned to the group

- tag-value

  value of a tag assigned to the group

- tag:KEY

  specific tag key/value combination

- vpc-id

  \[VPC only\] ID of a VPC the group belongs to