**To scan a table** The following ``scan`` example scans the entire ``MusicCollection`` table, and then narrows the results to songs by the artist "No One You Know". For each item, only the album title and song title are returned. :: aws dynamodb scan \ --table-name MusicCollection \ --filter-expression "Artist = :a" \ --projection-expression "#ST, #AT" \ --expression-attribute-names file://expression-attribute-names.json \ --expression-attribute-values file://expression-attribute-values.json Contents of ``expression-attribute-names.json``:: { "#ST": "SongTitle", "#AT":"AlbumTitle" } Contents of ``expression-attribute-values.json``:: { ":a": {"S": "No One You Know"} } Output:: { "Count": 2, "Items": [ { "SongTitle": { "S": "Call Me Today" }, "AlbumTitle": { "S": "Somewhat Famous" } }, { "SongTitle": { "S": "Scared of My Shadow" }, "AlbumTitle": { "S": "Blue Sky Blues" } } ], "ScannedCount": 3, "ConsumedCapacity": null } For more information, see `Working with Scans in DynamoDB <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Scan.html>`__ in the *Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide*.