Today in this article we shall see how to use gsutil command-line tool to Archive,Move Or Copy File Google Cloud Storage Bucket gsutil

As we took deep dive into the previous article on gsutil, where we understood it is actually a Python command-line application that lets you access Cloud Storage.

You can use gsutil to perform a lot of operations including uploads and downloads etc. using HTTPS and transport-layer security (TLS) etc.

Today in this article, we will cover below aspects,

The gsutil mv the command allows you to move data between your local file system and the cloud, move data within the cloud, and move data between cloud storage providers

Prerequisites

• Create an account in the google cloud project.

• Install the Google Cloud SDK

Moving file with in a Google Bucket

We can easily use the mv command which lets you move from a source location to the target location. You can move data between local files and the cloud, move data between cloud storage providers or move data within the cloud.

Here default Move command is actually a combination of moving the file to a new location plus deleting of file from the source location.

Command Pattern

gsutil mv [source-gcs-path] [target-gcs-path]

Example

gsutil mv gs://thecodebuzz/load-from-gcutil/thecodebuzz.png gs://thecodebuzz/Archive

Moving file from one bucket to other bucket storage

Command Pattern

gsutil mv [source-gcs-path] [target-gcs-path]

Example

gsutil mv gs://thecodebuzz/load-from-gcutil/TheCodeBuzz.png gs://test-bucket-13/Archive

The above logic works for Jpeg or png or .text, pdf, or any file type.

List of contents/file of a bucket or folder

Please use the ls command to list the contents at the top level of your bucket.

Command Pattern

gsutil ls [source-bucket-path]

Example

gsutil ls gs://thecodebuzz/

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