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hardgsutil

Upload a directory to Cloud Storage using parallel multi-threaded transfers

command

gsutil -m cp -r ./DATA/ gs://BUCKET_NAME/

also accepted

gsutil -m cpgsutil -m cp -r

Command breakdown

Part of the Cloud Storage CLI (gsutil) — Cloud Storage gsutil category.

gsutil-mcp-r./DATA/gs://BUCKET_NAME/

Flag	Purpose
`-m`	Boolean flag
`-r`	Boolean flag

More Cloud Storage gsutil commands

Create a new Cloud Storage bucketgsutil mb gs://BUCKET_NAME
List all Cloud Storage buckets accessible in the current projectgsutil ls
Upload a local file to a Cloud Storage bucketgsutil cp FILE.TXT gs://BUCKET_NAME/
Download a file from Cloud Storage to the current directorygsutil cp gs://BUCKET_NAME/FILE.TXT .
Delete an object from a Cloud Storage bucketgsutil rm gs://BUCKET_NAME/FILE.TXT
Rename or move an object within Cloud Storagegsutil mv gs://BUCKET_NAME/OLD.TXT gs://BUCKET_NAME/NEW.TXT
Remove an empty Cloud Storage bucketgsutil rb gs://BUCKET_NAME
Print the contents of a Cloud Storage object to stdoutgsutil cat gs://BUCKET_NAME/FILE.TXT

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