I installed AWS CLI using Anaconda. I am using Linux Mint 19.1. I am not sure where to find .aws folder because I use Anaconda instead of pip install awscli --upgrade --user.
Here are the paths I see using find . -iname "aws":
./anaconda3/share/terminfo/a/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/ncurses-6.1-hfc679d8_2/share/terminfo/a/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.12.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.12.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-s3/include/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.12.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-kinesis/include/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.12.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/awscli-1.16.92-py36_0/bin/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.10.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.10.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-s3/include/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.10.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-kinesis/include/aws
./anaconda3/pkgs/tensorflow-base-1.10.0-mkl_py36h3c3e929_0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws
./anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws
./anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-s3/include/aws
./anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-kinesis/include/aws
./anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/include/external/aws/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws
./anaconda3/bin/aws
I check these 2 paths:
./anaconda3/pkgs/awscli-1.16.92-py36_0/bin/aws
./anaconda3/bin/aws
using find . -iname "config" | grep aws and find . -iname "credentials" | grep aws but both of them don't contain config or credentials file.
So where can I find the .aws folder, which wasn't created? I can confirm that aws is installed as aws --version returns aws-cli/1.16.92 Python/3.6.7 Linux/4.15.0-43-generic botocore/1.12.82
When I was reading about the configuration and credential files here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-files.html, I tried to find these files but was unable to.
Following @bwest suggestion, I followed the steps in the previous page here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html using the command aws configure, and did my find again.
This time I'm able to locate the .aws folder, config and credentials files.
So in short, if you install awscli the .aws will not be automatically created, you have to execute aws configure.