Download an entire AWS S3 bucket or file

Writing by shivdev on Tuesday, 24 of March , 2015 at 5:32 am

AWS CLI to the rescue. It’s really quick and easy. Install AWS CLI, add your keys to the credentials and then fire away.

• AWS CLI Reference (pip install awscli) of course you have Python
• Configuring AWS CLI (~/.aws/credentials) use profiles for qa, dev etc.
• AWS ls command (aws s3 ls s3://mybucket)
• AWS cp command (aws s3 cp s3://mybucket/test.txt .) create all your aliases

Here are some of mine

alias s3ls=’function _s3ls(){ aws s3 ls s3://”$@” ; }; _s3ls’
alias s3get=’function _s3get(){ aws s3 cp s3://”$@” . ; }; _s3get’
alias s3getdir=’function _s3getdir(){ aws s3 cp s3://”$@” . –recursive ; }; _s3getdir’

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