What Is the gsutil Utility?

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The gsutil utility lets you create, access, and modify buckets and objects. For the most part, gsutil commands have the same names and purposes as common <sup>*</sup>nix commands.

This table lists 13 of gsutil's commands. For a more thorough discussion, visit Google's documentation.

gsutil Commands

Command	Description
mb [-c class] [-l location] . [-p proj_id] url…	Make a new bucket
rb [-f] url…	Remove buckets
cp [OPTION]… src_url dst_url cp [OPTION]… src_url… dst_url cp [OPTION]… -I dst_url	Copy files and objects
mv [-p] src_url dst_url mv [-p] src_url… dst_url mv [-p] -I dst_url	Move objects and/or subdirectories
rm [-f] [-r] url… rm [-f] [-r] –I	Remove objects
ls [-a] [-b] [-d] [-l] [-L] [-r] [-p proj_id] url…	List buckets and objects
stat url…	Display object status
rewrite -k [-f] [-r] url… rewrite -k [-f] [-r] –I	Rewrite objects
du url…	Display object size usage
cat [-h] url…	Concatenate object to standard output
compose gs://bucket/obj1 [gs://bucket/obj2 …] . gs://bucket/composite	Concatenate multiple objects into one
[-D] config [-a] [-b] [-e] [-f] [-n] . [-o <file>] [-r] [-s <scope] [-w]	Obtain credentials and create a configuration file
web set [-m main_page_suffix] . [-e error_page] bucket_url… . web get bucket_url	Associate one or more buckets with a web page

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Matthew Scarpino has been a programmer and engineer for more than 20 years. He has worked extensively with machine learning applications, especially those involving financial analysis, cognitive modeling, and image recognition. Matthew is a Google Certified Data Engineer and blogs about TensorFlow at tfblog.com.