s3cmd

Owned by Kevin Coakley

Dec 14, 2018

1 min read

Install s3cmd

Make sure you have Python version 2.7 or higher.
Install s3cmd using pip:
```
pip install s3cmd
```
You may have the run the command with sudo if you receive a permission denied error:
```
sudo pip install s3cmd
```

Configure s3cmd

Download this s3cfg file.
Edit the file and replace REPLACE_WITH_ACCESS_KEY and REPLACE_WITH_SECRET_KEY with the S3 API keys.
Move the files to ~/.s3cfg

Run s3cmd

List containers (buckets):
```
s3cmd ls
```
List objects in containers (buckets):
```
s3cmd ls s3://container_name/
```
To get a list of all s3cmd commands:
```
s3cmd
```