I created a .bashrc function for AWS ec2 describe-instances and for some reason, I cannot run the command twice, in terminal:

$ aws-instance -lp my-aws-profile -l dev
dev-application 10.10.11.122   i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     None    ami-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   running
$ aws-instance -lp my-aws-profile -l dev
$

.bashrc.d/aws_commands in RHEL9 environment:

function help-aws-instance() {
    # requires tabs instead of spaces, for proper formatting
    cat <<- EOF
        Actions related to AWS EC2 instances.

        Usage: aws-instance [OPTION]...

        -h, --help                     Display help
        -l, --list                     List all EC2 instances
        -n NAME, --name=NAME           EC2 instance prefix or full name
        -p PROFILE, --profile=PROFILE  AWS profile to use
        -s, --start                    Start EC2 instance
        -o, --stop                     Stop EC2 instance
    EOF
}

aws-instance() {
    local filters list name profile query start stop
    declare {list,start,stop}=false
    for arg in "$@"; do
        shift
        case "$arg" in
            --help)    set -- "$@" '-h' ;;
            --list)    set -- "$@" '-l' ;;
            --name)    set -- "$@" '-n' ;;
            --profile) set -- "$@" '-p' ;;
            --start)   set -- "$@" '-s' ;;
            --stop)    set -- "$@" '-o' ;;
            *)         set -- "$@" "$arg" ;;
        esac
    done
    while getopts "hlson:p:" options; do
        case "$options" in
            h) help-aws-instance && exit 0 ;;
            l) list=true ;;
            n) name="$OPTARG"; shift 0 ;;
            p) profile="$OPTARG"; shift 0 ;;
            s) start=true ;;
            o) stop=true ;;
            ?) help-aws-instance && exit 1 ;;
        esac
    done
    if $list; then
        if [ -z "$profile" ]; then
            help-aws-instance
            exit 1
        fi
        if [ -n "$name" ]; then
            name="$name*"
        else
            name='*'
        fi
        filters="Name=tag:Name,Values=$name"
        query='Reservations[].Instances[].[Tags[?Key==`Name`]|[0].'
        query+='Value,PrivateIpAddress,InstanceId,'
        query+='Placement.HostId,ImageId,State.Name]'
        aws ec2 describe-instances --profile $profile --query $query 
            --filters $filters --output text
    fi
}

I did some research, but is very difficult to find the root cause. Also, I”m not sure what is the proper way to debug functions in bashrc? I’m not sure what am I missing, thank you for providing some guidance.