[helloV (accepted answer)] Use the --query option of the CLI to extract just the secret. ``` aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id secrets --query SecretString --output text ```

Context: Stack Overflow #50911540 (accepted answer, 150 votes, 16 answers): I am retrieving secrets I have stored in AWS secrets manager with the AWS cli like this: ``` aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id secrets ``` Which returns ``` arn:aws:secretsmanager[ID]:secret - my_secrets [number] my_secrets {"API_KEY":"ABCDEFGHI"} [UUID string] VERSIONSTAGES AWSCURRENT ``` Does anyone know how I only get the secret ("API_KEY": "ABCDEFGHI")? I need to move these secrets to my register-task-definition environment variables. The best way would be to store them in a file and delete it after us or store them in variable. It is running on a linux machine.

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Original query: "Parsing secrets from AWS secrets manager using AWS cli"
Key terms: manager, parsing, secrets, using