Fuzzy Matching

If enabled in awsume's global config, awsume will attempt to fuzzy match your profile name to an available profile if the given profile name is not found.

There are three methods used to match a profile name to a given profile (in order):

• Prefix Match
• Longest Contains
• Levenshtein Distance

For each method, if there is one closest profile, that is the profile that will be chosen. If there is a tie for which profile is closest, no profile will be returned.

Prefix Match

Compare the given profile name to each profile as if it was the prefix.

For example, if these are your profiles:

dev-readonly
dev-admin

• dev-a would match to the dev-admin profile
• dev would not match to any profile

Longest Contains

Compare the longest common sequence of characters between the given profile name and each profile.

For example, if these are your profiles:

hello-dev-readonly
goodbye-dev-readonly

• dev-readonly would not match to any profile
• bye-dev-read would match to the goodbye-dev-readonly profile

Levenshtein Distance

Compare the given profile name to each profile with the levenshtein distance (opens new window). This is useful mainly for small typos.

For example, if these are your profiles:

dev-readonly
dev-admin
profile1
profile2

• dev-admib would match to dev-admin
• profile would not match to any, since the levenshtein distance between both profile1 and profile2 and the given profile is the same