# cfn-resources > Prints the list of resource types and logical IDs from a CloudFormation > template. ## Installation Install globally: ```bash npm i -g cfn-resources ``` ## Usage ```shell $ cat my-template.json | cfn-resources AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup WebServerGroup AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration LaunchConfig AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy WebServerScaleUpPolicy AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy WebServerScaleDownPolicy AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm CPUAlarmHigh AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm CPUAlarmLow AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup InstanceSecurityGroup AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::Listener ALBListener AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer ApplicationLoadBalancer AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::TargetGroup ALBTargetGroup AWS::SNS::Topic NotificationTopic ``` To print the number of resources in a template: ```shell $ cat test/fixtures/sample.json | node lib/cli.js | wc -l 11 ``` To print only resource types: ```shell $ cat my-template.json | cfn-resources | cut -d" " -f1 | uniq AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::Listener AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::TargetGroup AWS::SNS::Topic ``` ## Contributions All contributions are celebrated. ## License Distributed under the [Apache 2.0](./LICENSE) license.