AWS CLI CloudFront Invalidate All Files

Maybe on windows (using cmd) you can use the path without quotes, but on bash environment (linux, mac) the character * it's a special char. You need to pass the path inside quotes to work cross-platform:

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id $DISTRIBUTION_ID --paths '/*'

That's your shell doing expansion of local filenames.

That's what you're essentially asking for since the * isn't quoted.

Either --paths '*' or Specifying --paths '/*'¹ will do what you intend. Quoting the wildcard keeps it as a literal string rather than what you're seeing.

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¹The CloudFront console allows you to specify either * or /* to invalidate the entire distribution; by contrast, the CLI expects /*. This, in turn, is because the underlying API also expects /*. When you use * in the console, the leading slash is silently added by the console before the console makes the request to the CloudFront API.

Example of invalidation of cloudfront distribution via aws cli :

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id <DistributionID> --paths "/*"

Example :

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id E1B1A4GHK9TTE --paths "/*"

To list or get cloudfront distribution id you can use console or via cli :

aws cloudfront list-distributions 
aws cloudfront list-distributions | grep Id