S3cmd - A faster way for AWS S3 Operations.

S3cmd

A very faster and reliable CLI tool for AWS object storage (S3) operations.

So this tutorial is just a walk through to

• How to install s3cmd
• How to configure S3cmd
• Basic operations copy, move, list.

Requirements.

• AWS Console access.
• API Token for same account.
• PIP is installed within Windows system to install python packages

Installation.

For Windows

pip install s3cmd

For Linux

sudo apt-get install s3cmd -y

Configuration.

Before we proceed to run cli commands, let configure s3cmd configuration file to authenticate.

For Linux -

Toggle to home directory of your account.

# cd ~

Create an empty hidden file named as .s3cfg

# touch .s3cfg

Add the below lines and add your own access_key and secret_key and save.

[default]

# Login credentials
access_key = AKMYOWNACCESSKEYHDEG
secret_key = 1DwMYownAccessSecretKeyoOV8

Now we are ready to do s3 operations using s3cmd cli, all cli commands are same for windows and linux operating systems.

Object Storage operations.

• List content of your S3 Bucket.

# s3cmd ls s3://<Your AWS Bucket Name/

• Create an new Bucket

# s3cmd mb s3://my_own_s3_newbucket/

• Uploading content within a Bucket.

# s3cmd put myfile1.txt myimage.jpg s3://my_own_s3_newbucket/

• Download content from Bucket.

# s3cmd get s3://my_own_s3_newbucket/myimage.jpg myimage.jpg

• Remove and existing Bucket

# s3cmd rb s3://my_own_s3_newbucket/

• Move content of one bucket(Source) to another(Destination).

# s3cmd mv --recursive s3://failed/ s3://old_failed/