HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - s3cmd

While s3curl.pl allows command line access to Amazon S3, it will only work one file at a time, we have to read XML for “directory” listings, and requires we know details about S3 (like how to list more than 1000 objects in a single request, or how to list a “directory”/start with a prefix). s3cmd, from Michal Ludvig, gives a much simpler way of interfacing with Amazon S3 on the command line.

Install options

GitHub

Console - user@hostname ~ $

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git clone https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd.git
cd s3cmd
sudo python setup.py install

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