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In this article, we will look at the s3cmd command examples. S3 is known as simple storage service where we can store almost any kind of objects.We will learn here how to access files from S3 storage using s3cmd command line tool. This tool will be very much useful if you want to access the storage through any bash or other linux script.You can programmatically upload or download the files from storage.
s3cmd Command Examples
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1. Create a S3 Bucket
If you want to create a S3 Bucket, then you need to use below command. In this example, I am creating test-example bucket. Please note that here bucket name starts with s3://
prefix. If you forget this URI in the command, then you will get “Expecting S3 URI with just the bucket name set instead of ‘<bucket_name>'” error.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd mb s3://test-example1 Bucket 's3://test-example1/' created
2. List a Bucket
If you want to list a bucket and all its files, then you need to use below command. Here you can see that we are using ls
option to list test-example1
bucket and its contents.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd ls test-example1 2017-06-14 11:17 s3://demo 2019-08-21 06:54 s3://example 2018-07-17 05:49 s3://atest-e3ea7edb7ce2b7ec29714b9256e21944 2017-03-21 01:58 s3://atest 2016-03-27 04:43 s3://test-templates-1uwg86dfc53aq-us-east-1 2011-12-08 17:19 s3://test-templates-1uwg86dfc53aq-us-east-2 2011-08-22 17:33 s3://test-templates-1uwg86dfc53aq-us-west-1 2011-03-28 09:40 s3://test-templates-1uwg86dfc53aq-us-west-2 2011-09-27 09:08 s3://test1 2011-02-12 08:09 s3://customer
3. List all Buckets
If you want to list and see all the buckets in AWS account and its files then you need to use la
option instead of ls
to check that. Please note that this command output will be in detail based on number of buckets and its contents.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd la 2011-06-14 11:21 1925034 s3://yourbucket/test.html 2011-06-18 15:10 1158 s3://yourbucket/example.html 2011-01-30 08:10 1213151 s3://yourbucket/test1.tar.gz 2011-11-11 17:37 5001 s3://yourbucket/test.jpg 2011-01-23 06:59 1714520 s3://yourbucket/example2.tar.gz 2011-02-14 20:19 291 s3://yourbucket/script.sh 2011-03-23 00:34 7772680 s3://yourbucket/test 2011-06-14 11:30 27 s3://yourbucket/test.txt 2011-02-26 07:25 528338576 s3://morebucket/test.upg 2011-08-21 06:54 630004352 s3://morebucket/test1.upg 2011-09-09 08:24 619328784 s3://morebucket/test2.upg 2011-09-09 08:24 622524160 s3://morebucket/test3.upg 2011-10-01 09:36 742018384 s3://morebucket/test4.upg 2011-11-24 03:24 743647520 s3://morebucket/test5.upg 2011-11-27 06:12 8211 s3://morebucket/test.sh
4. Copy Files into Bucket
If you want to copy some file into your bucket, then first you need to create a file using touch
command as shown below. In this example, we are creating an empty file example.txt.
[root@localhost ~]# touch example.txt
Now you can upload example.txt
in the bucket using put
option as mentioned below. Since example.txt
is an empty file hence it will be quickly uploaded.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd put example.txt s3://test-example1 upload: 'example.txt' -> 's3://test-example1/example.txt' [1 of 1] 0 of 0 0% in 0s 0.00 B/s done
5. Get the file from Bucket
If you want to get some files from your bucket to your local system, then you need to use below s3cmd command. As you can check from below output, here we are using get
option to download a file from S3 Bucket whereas we have used put
option above to upload a file.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd get s3://test-example3/example.txt example.txt download: 's3://test-example3/example.txt' -> 'example.txt' [1 of 1] 0 of 0 0% in 0s 0.00 B/s done
6. Delete a File from Bucket
If you want to delete a file from bucket, then you need to use below command. You can notice from below command that we are using del
option to delete a file from bucket. Here we are deleting example.txt
file from test-example3
bucket.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd del s3://test-example3/example.txt delete: 's3://test-example3/example.txt'
7. Delete a Bucket
If you want to delete a bucket, then you need to use below command. Please note that before deleting a bucket, you need to remove all the files from bucket and empty it or else you will get “The bucket you tried to delete is not empty”.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd rb s3://test-example3 Bucket 's3://test-example3/' removed
8. Copy Files from One Bucket to Another
You can copy files from one bucket to another by using below command. Here we are copying example.txt
file from source bucket test-exampl3
to destination bucket test-example1.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd cp s3://test-exampl3/example.txt s3://test-example1 remote copy: 's3://test-exampl3/example.txt' -> 's3://test-example1/example.txt'
9. Check Info of a Bucket
If you want to get complete information about a S3 Bucket, then you need to use below command. You can get important information like location, ACL details etc from this command.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd info s3://test-example1 s3://test-example1/ (bucket): Location: us-east-1 Payer: BucketOwner Expiration Rule: none Policy: none CORS: none ACL: testexampleaws: FULL_CONTROL
10. Check Other Options
If you want to check all the other options available with s3cmd
command , then you need to use --help
option as shown below.
[root@localhost ~]# s3cmd --help Usage: s3cmd [options] COMMAND [parameters] S3cmd is a tool for managing objects in Amazon S3 storage. It allows for making and removing "buckets" and uploading, downloading and removing "objects" from these buckets. Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --configure Invoke interactive (re)configuration tool. Optionally use as '--configure s3://some-bucket' to test access to a specific bucket instead of attempting to list them all.
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