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hardgsutil

Recursively upload an entire local directory to Cloud Storage

command

gsutil cp -r ./LOCAL_DIR/ gs://BUCKET_NAME/

also accepted

gsutil cp -rgsutil cp -r ./

Command breakdown

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

gsutilcp-r./LOCAL_DIR/gs://BUCKET_NAME/

Flag	Purpose
`-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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