I love bash

Rob and I just wrote this

tools/AutoScaling-1.0.49.1/bin/as-describe-launch-configs $SECURITY --max-records 100 | grep launch-all-staging | cut -d ' ' -f3 | sort -r | tail -n +6 | xargs -I BC tools/AutoScaling-1.0.49.1/bin/as-delete-launch-config $SECURITY --force --launch-config BC

And now we only have six launch configurations in AWS whose names start with "launch-all-staging". It's only a shame that the command line is too long to tweet.