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Create and Delete Amazon EC2 Volumes using a shell script

I am using this following script which does a regular backup of volumes on Amazon AWS cloud service. It creates new snapshots of the volumes and should remove snapshots older than two days. It is ...
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Does bash have a built in caching command available (sort of like mktemp or sponge)?

I'm using the amazon ec2 command line tools, and the ec2-describe-instances tool is a little painful because of the 2-5 seconds it requires to make the request and display the output. I'm looking ...