s3cmd(1) General Commands Manual s3cmd(1) NAME s3cmd - tool for managing Amazon S3 storage space and Amazon CloudFront content delivery network SYNOPSIS s3cmd [OPTIONS] COMMAND [PARAMETERS] DESCRIPTION s3cmd is a command line client for copying files to/from Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and performing other related tasks, for instance creating and removing buckets, listing objects, etc. COMMANDS s3cmd can do several actions specified by the following commands. s3cmd mb s3://BUCKET Make bucket s3cmd rb s3://BUCKET Remove bucket s3cmd ls [s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX]] List objects or buckets s3cmd la List all object in all buckets s3cmd put FILE [FILE...] s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX] Put file into bucket s3cmd get s3://BUCKET/OBJECT LOCAL_FILE Get file from bucket s3cmd del s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Delete file from bucket s3cmd rm s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Delete file from bucket (alias for del) s3cmd restore s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Restore file from Glacier storage s3cmd sync LOCAL_DIR s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX] or s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX] LOCAL_DIR or s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX] s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX] Synchronize a directory tree to S3 (checks files freshness using size and md5 checksum, unless overridden by options, see below) s3cmd du [s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX]] Disk usage by buckets s3cmd info s3://BUCKET[/OBJECT] Get various information about Buckets or Files s3cmd cp s3://BUCKET1/OBJECT1 s3://BUCKET2[/OBJECT2] Copy object s3cmd modify s3://BUCKET1/OBJECT Modify object metadata s3cmd mv s3://BUCKET1/OBJECT1 s3://BUCKET2[/OBJECT2] Move object s3cmd setacl s3://BUCKET[/OBJECT] Modify Access control list for Bucket or Files s3cmd setversioning s3://BUCKET enable|disable Modify Bucket Versioning s3cmd setownership s3://BUCKET BucketOwnerPreferred|BucketOwnerEnforced|ObjectWriter Modify Bucket Object Ownership s3cmd setblockpublicaccess s3://BUCKET BlockPublicAcls,IgnorePublicAcls,BlockPublicPolicy,RestrictPublicBuckets Modify Block Public Access rules s3cmd setobjectlegalhold STATUS s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Modify Object Legal Hold s3cmd setobjectretention MODE RETAIN_UNTIL_DATE s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Modify Object Retention s3cmd setpolicy FILE s3://BUCKET Modify Bucket Policy s3cmd delpolicy s3://BUCKET Delete Bucket Policy s3cmd setcors FILE s3://BUCKET Modify Bucket CORS s3cmd delcors s3://BUCKET Delete Bucket CORS s3cmd payer s3://BUCKET Modify Bucket Requester Pays policy s3cmd multipart s3://BUCKET [Id] Show multipart uploads s3cmd abortmp s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Id Abort a multipart upload s3cmd listmp s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Id List parts of a multipart upload s3cmd accesslog s3://BUCKET Enable/disable bucket access logging s3cmd sign STRING-TO-SIGN Sign arbitrary string using the secret key s3cmd signurl s3://BUCKET/OBJECT Sign an S3 URL to provide limited public access with expiry s3cmd fixbucket s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX] Fix invalid file names in a bucket s3cmd settagging s3://BUCKET[/OBJECT] "KEY=VALUE[&KEY=VALUE ...]" Modify tagging for Bucket or Files s3cmd gettagging s3://BUCKET[/OBJECT] Get tagging for Bucket or Files s3cmd deltagging s3://BUCKET[/OBJECT] Delete tagging for Bucket or Files s3cmd expire s3://BUCKET Set or delete expiration rule for the bucket s3cmd setlifecycle FILE s3://BUCKET Upload a lifecycle policy for the bucket s3cmd getlifecycle s3://BUCKET Get a lifecycle policy for the bucket s3cmd dellifecycle s3://BUCKET Remove a lifecycle policy for the bucket s3cmd setnotification FILE s3://BUCKET Upload a notification policy for the bucket s3cmd getnotification s3://BUCKET Get a notification policy for the bucket s3cmd delnotification s3://BUCKET Remove a notification policy for the bucket Commands for static WebSites configuration s3cmd ws-create s3://BUCKET Create Website from bucket s3cmd ws-delete s3://BUCKET Delete Website s3cmd ws-info s3://BUCKET Info about Website Commands for CloudFront management s3cmd cflist List CloudFront distribution points s3cmd cfinfo [cf://DIST_ID] Display CloudFront distribution point parameters s3cmd cfcreate s3://BUCKET Create CloudFront distribution point s3cmd cfdelete cf://DIST_ID Delete CloudFront distribution point s3cmd cfmodify cf://DIST_ID Change CloudFront distribution point parameters s3cmd cfinval s3://BUCKET/OBJECT [s3://BUCKET/OBJECT ...] Invalidate CloudFront objects s3cmd cfinvalinfo cf://DIST_ID[/INVAL_ID] Display CloudFront invalidation request(s) status OPTIONS Some of the below specified options can have their default values set in s3cmd config file (by default $HOME/.s3cmd). As it's a simple text file feel free to open it with your favorite text editor and do any changes you like. -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. -c FILE, --config=FILE Config file name. Defaults to $HOME/.s3cfg --dump-config Dump current configuration after parsing config files and command line options and exit. --access_key=ACCESS_KEY AWS Access Key --secret_key=SECRET_KEY AWS Secret Key --access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN AWS Access Token -n, --dry-run Only show what should be uploaded or downloaded but don't actually do it. May still perform S3 requests to get bucket listings and other information though (only for file transfer commands) -s, --ssl Use HTTPS connection when communicating with S3. (default) --no-ssl Don't use HTTPS. -e, --encrypt Encrypt files before uploading to S3. --no-encrypt Don't encrypt files. -f, --force Force overwrite and other dangerous operations. --continue Continue getting a partially downloaded file (only for [get] command). --continue-put Continue uploading partially uploaded files or multipart upload parts. Restarts parts/files that don't have matching size and md5. Skips files/parts that do. Note: md5sum checks are not always sufficient to check (part) file equality. Enable this at your own risk. --upload-id=UPLOAD_ID UploadId for Multipart Upload, in case you want continue an existing upload (equivalent to --continue- put) and there are multiple partial uploads. Use s3cmd multipart [URI] to see what UploadIds are associated with the given URI. --skip-existing Skip over files that exist at the destination (only for [get] and [sync] commands). -r, --recursive Recursive upload, download or removal. --check-md5 Check MD5 sums when comparing files for [sync]. (default) --no-check-md5 Do not check MD5 sums when comparing files for [sync]. Only size will be compared. May significantly speed up transfer but may also miss some changed files. -P, --acl-public Store objects with ACL allowing read for anyone. --acl-private Store objects with default ACL allowing access for you only. --acl-grant=PERMISSION:EMAIL or USER_CANONICAL_ID Grant stated permission to a given amazon user. Permission is one of: read, write, read_acp, write_acp, full_control, all --acl-revoke=PERMISSION:USER_CANONICAL_ID Revoke stated permission for a given amazon user. Permission is one of: read, write, read_acp, write_acp, full_control, all -D NUM, --restore-days=NUM Number of days to keep restored file available (only for 'restore' command). Default is 1 day. --restore-priority=RESTORE_PRIORITY Priority for restoring files from S3 Glacier (only for expedited --delete-removed Delete destination objects with no corresponding source file [sync] --no-delete-removed Don't delete destination objects [sync] --delete-after Perform deletes AFTER new uploads when delete-removed is enabled [sync] --delay-updates *OBSOLETE* Put all updated files into place at end [sync] --max-delete=NUM Do not delete more than NUM files. [del] and [sync] --limit=NUM Limit number of objects returned in the response body (only for [ls] and [la] commands) --add-destination=ADDITIONAL_DESTINATIONS Additional destination for parallel uploads, in addition to last arg. May be repeated. --delete-after-fetch Delete remote objects after fetching to local file (only for [get] and [sync] commands). -p, --preserve Preserve filesystem attributes (mode, ownership, timestamps). Default for [sync] command. --no-preserve Don't store FS attributes --keep-dirs Preserve all local directories as remote objects including empty directories. Experimental feature. --exclude=GLOB Filenames and paths matching GLOB will be excluded from sync --exclude-from=FILE Read --exclude GLOBs from FILE --rexclude=REGEXP Filenames and paths matching REGEXP (regular expression) will be excluded from sync --rexclude-from=FILE Read --rexclude REGEXPs from FILE --include=GLOB Filenames and paths matching GLOB will be included even if previously excluded by one of --(r)exclude(-from) patterns --include-from=FILE Read --include GLOBs from FILE --rinclude=REGEXP Same as --include but uses REGEXP (regular expression) instead of GLOB --rinclude-from=FILE Read --rinclude REGEXPs from FILE --files-from=FILE Read list of source-file names from FILE. Use - to read from stdin. --region=REGION, --bucket-location=REGION Region to create bucket in. As of now the regions are: us-east-1, us-west-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu- central-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, ap- southeast-2, sa-east-1 --host=HOSTNAME HOSTNAME:PORT for S3 endpoint (default: s3.amazonaws.com, alternatives such as s3-eu- west-1.amazonaws.com). You should also set --host- bucket. --host-bucket=HOST_BUCKET DNS-style bucket+hostname:port template for accessing a bucket (default: %(bucket)s.s3.amazonaws.com) --reduced-redundancy, --rr Store object with 'Reduced redundancy'. Lower per-GB price. [put, cp, mv] --no-reduced-redundancy, --no-rr Store object without 'Reduced redundancy'. Higher per- GB price. [put, cp, mv] --storage-class=CLASS Store object with specified CLASS (STANDARD, STANDARD_IA, ONEZONE_IA, INTELLIGENT_TIERING, GLACIER or DEEP_ARCHIVE). [put, cp, mv] --access-logging-target-prefix=LOG_TARGET_PREFIX Target prefix for access logs (S3 URI) (for [cfmodify] and [accesslog] commands) --no-access-logging Disable access logging (for [cfmodify] and [accesslog] commands) --default-mime-type=DEFAULT_MIME_TYPE Default MIME-type for stored objects. Application default is binary/octet-stream. -M, --guess-mime-type Guess MIME-type of files by their extension or mime magic. Fall back to default MIME-Type as specified by --default-mime-type option --no-guess-mime-type Don't guess MIME-type and use the default type instead. --no-mime-magic Don't use mime magic when guessing MIME-type. -m MIME/TYPE, --mime-type=MIME/TYPE Force MIME-type. Override both --default-mime-type and --guess-mime-type. --add-header=NAME:VALUE Add a given HTTP header to the upload request. Can be used multiple times. For instance set 'Expires' or 'Cache-Control' headers (or both) using this option. --remove-header=NAME Remove a given HTTP header. Can be used multiple times. For instance, remove 'Expires' or 'Cache- Control' headers (or both) using this option. [modify] --server-side-encryption Specifies that server-side encryption will be used when putting objects. [put, sync, cp, modify] --server-side-encryption-kms-id=KMS_KEY Specifies the key id used for server-side encryption with AWS KMS-Managed Keys (SSE-KMS) when putting objects. [put, sync, cp, modify] --encoding=ENCODING Override autodetected terminal and filesystem encoding (character set). Autodetected: UTF-8 --add-encoding-exts=EXTENSIONs Add encoding to these comma delimited extensions i.e. (css,js,html) when uploading to S3 ) --verbatim Use the S3 name as given on the command line. No pre- processing, encoding, etc. Use with caution! --disable-multipart Disable multipart upload on files bigger than --multipart-chunk-size-mb --multipart-chunk-size-mb=SIZE Size of each chunk of a multipart upload. Files bigger than SIZE are automatically uploaded as multithreaded- multipart, smaller files are uploaded using the traditional method. SIZE is in Mega-Bytes, default chunk size is 15MB, minimum allowed chunk size is 5MB, maximum is 5GB. --list-md5 Include MD5 sums in bucket listings (only for 'ls' command). --list-allow-unordered Not an AWS standard. Allow the listing results to be returned in unsorted order. This may be faster when listing very large buckets. -H, --human-readable-sizes Print sizes in human readable form (eg 1kB instead of 1234). --ws-index=WEBSITE_INDEX Name of index-document (only for [ws-create] command) --ws-error=WEBSITE_ERROR Name of error-document (only for [ws-create] command) --expiry-date=EXPIRY_DATE Indicates when the expiration rule takes effect. (only for [expire] command) --expiry-days=EXPIRY_DAYS Indicates the number of days after object creation the expiration rule takes effect. (only for [expire] command) --expiry-prefix=EXPIRY_PREFIX Identifying one or more objects with the prefix to which the expiration rule applies. (only for [expire] command) --skip-destination-validation Skips validation of Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda destinations when applying notification configuration. (only for [setnotification] command) --progress Display progress meter (default on TTY). --no-progress Don't display progress meter (default on non-TTY). --stats Give some file-transfer stats. --enable Enable given CloudFront distribution (only for [cfmodify] command) --disable Disable given CloudFront distribution (only for [cfmodify] command) --cf-invalidate Invalidate the uploaded filed in CloudFront. Also see [cfinval] command. --cf-invalidate-default-index When using Custom Origin and S3 static website, invalidate the default index file. --cf-no-invalidate-default-index-root When using Custom Origin and S3 static website, don't invalidate the path to the default index file. --cf-add-cname=CNAME Add given CNAME to a CloudFront distribution (only for [cfcreate] and [cfmodify] commands) --cf-remove-cname=CNAME Remove given CNAME from a CloudFront distribution (only for [cfmodify] command) --cf-comment=COMMENT Set COMMENT for a given CloudFront distribution (only for [cfcreate] and [cfmodify] commands) --cf-default-root-object=DEFAULT_ROOT_OBJECT Set the default root object to return when no object is specified in the URL. Use a relative path, i.e. default/index.html instead of /default/index.html or s3://bucket/default/index.html (only for [cfcreate] and [cfmodify] commands) -v, --verbose Enable verbose output. -d, --debug Enable debug output. --version Show s3cmd version (2.4.0) and exit. -F, --follow-symlinks Follow symbolic links as if they are regular files --cache-file=FILE Cache FILE containing local source MD5 values -q, --quiet Silence output on stdout --ca-certs=CA_CERTS_FILE Path to SSL CA certificate FILE (instead of system default) --ssl-cert=SSL_CLIENT_CERT_FILE Path to client own SSL certificate CRT_FILE --ssl-key=SSL_CLIENT_KEY_FILE Path to client own SSL certificate private key KEY_FILE --check-certificate Check SSL certificate validity --no-check-certificate Do not check SSL certificate validity --check-hostname Check SSL certificate hostname validity --no-check-hostname Do not check SSL certificate hostname validity --signature-v2 Use AWS Signature version 2 instead of newer signature methods. Helpful for S3-like systems that don't have AWS Signature v4 yet. --limit-rate=LIMITRATE Limit the upload or download speed to amount bytes per second. Amount may be expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the k suffix, or megabytes with the m suffix --no-connection-pooling Disable connection reuse --requester-pays Set the REQUESTER PAYS flag for operations -l, --long-listing Produce long listing [ls] --stop-on-error stop if error in transfer --max-retries=NUM Maximum number of times to retry a failed request before giving up. Default is 5 --content-disposition=CONTENT_DISPOSITION Provide a Content-Disposition for signed URLs, e.g., "inline; filename=myvideo.mp4" --content-type=CONTENT_TYPE Provide a Content-Type for signed URLs, e.g., "video/mp4" EXAMPLES One of the most powerful commands of s3cmd is s3cmd sync used for synchronising complete directory trees to or from remote S3 storage. To some extent s3cmd put and s3cmd get share a similar behaviour with sync. Basic usage common in backup scenarios is as simple as: s3cmd sync /local/path/ s3://test-bucket/backup/ This command will find all files under /local/path directory and copy them to corresponding paths under s3://test-bucket/backup on the remote side. For example: /local/path/file1.ext -> s3://bucket/backup/file1.ext /local/path/dir123/file2.bin -> s3://bucket/backup/dir123/file2.bin However if the local path doesn't end with a slash the last directory's name is used on the remote side as well. Compare these with the previous example: s3cmd sync /local/path s3://test-bucket/backup/ will sync: /local/path/file1.ext -> s3://bucket/backup/path/file1.ext /local/path/dir123/file2.bin -> s3://bucket/backup/path/dir123/file2.bin To retrieve the files back from S3 use inverted syntax: s3cmd sync s3://test-bucket/backup/ ~/restore/ that will download files: s3://bucket/backup/file1.ext -> ~/restore/file1.ext s3://bucket/backup/dir123/file2.bin -> ~/restore/dir123/file2.bin Without the trailing slash on source the behaviour is similar to what has been demonstrated with upload: s3cmd sync s3://test-bucket/backup ~/restore/ will download the files as: s3://bucket/backup/file1.ext -> ~/restore/backup/file1.ext s3://bucket/backup/dir123/file2.bin -> ~/restore/backup/dir123/file2.bin All source file names, the bold ones above, are matched against exclude rules and those that match are then re-checked against include rules to see whether they should be excluded or kept in the source list. For the purpose of --exclude and --include matching only the bold file names above are used. For instance only path/file1.ext is tested against the patterns, not /local/path/file1.ext Both --exclude and --include work with shell-style wildcards (a.k.a. GLOB). For a greater flexibility s3cmd provides Regular-expression versions of the two exclude options named --rexclude and --rinclude. The options with ...-from suffix (eg --rinclude-from) expect a filename as an argument. Each line of such a file is treated as one pattern. There is only one set of patterns built from all --(r)exclude(-from) options and similarly for include variant. Any file excluded with eg --exclude can be put back with a pattern found in --rinclude-from list. Run s3cmd with --dry-run to verify that your rules work as expected. Use together with --debug get detailed information about matching file names against exclude and include rules. For example to exclude all files with ".jpg" extension except those beginning with a number use: --exclude '*.jpg' --rinclude '[0-9].*.jpg' To exclude all files except "*.jpg" extension, use: --exclude '*' --include '*.jpg' To exclude local directory 'somedir', be sure to use a trailing forward slash, as such: --exclude 'somedir/' SEE ALSO For the most up to date list of options run: s3cmd --help For more info about usage, examples and other related info visit project homepage at: https://s3tools.org AUTHOR Written by Michal Ludvig, Florent Viard and contributors CONTACT, SUPPORT Preferred way to get support is our mailing list: s3tools-general@lists.sourceforge.net or visit the project homepage: https://s3tools.org REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to s3tools-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2007-2023 TGRMN Software (https://www.tgrmn.com), Sodria SAS (https://www.sodria.com) and contributors LICENSE This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. s3cmd(1)