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gsutil — Access Google Cloud Storage. You can use `gsutil` to do a wide range of bucket and object management

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Problem

How to use the gsutil command: Access Google Cloud Storage. You can use gsutil to do a wide range of bucket and object management tasks. More information: <https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil>.

Solution

gsutil — Access Google Cloud Storage. You can use gsutil to do a wide range of bucket and object management tasks. More information: <https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil>.

List all buckets in a project you are logged into:

gsutil ls

List the objects in a bucket:

gsutil ls -r 'gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{prefix}}**'

Download an object from a bucket:

gsutil cp gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{object_name}} {{path/to/save_location}}

Upload an object to a bucket:

gsutil cp {{object_location}} gs://{{destination_bucket_name}}/

Rename or move objects in a bucket:

gsutil mv gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{old_object_name}} gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{new_object_name}}

Create a new bucket in the project you are logged into:

gsutil mb gs://{{bucket_name}}

Delete a bucket and remove all the objects in it:

gsutil rm -r gs://{{bucket_name}}

Code Snippets

List all buckets in a project you are logged into

gsutil ls

List the objects in a bucket

gsutil ls -r 'gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{prefix}}**'

Download an object from a bucket

gsutil cp gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{object_name}} {{path/to/save_location}}

Upload an object to a bucket

gsutil cp {{object_location}} gs://{{destination_bucket_name}}/

Rename or move objects in a bucket

gsutil mv gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{old_object_name}} gs://{{bucket_name}}/{{new_object_name}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/gsutil

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