Using gsutil
As with most other products in the GCP catalog, there are a number of ways to interact with Cloud Storage, including APIs, the Cloud Console, and client libraries. Unlike most other products, Google provides a dedicated command-line tool, gsutil, instead of incorporating functionality into the gcloud CLI. Additionally, because the need for general object storage is so ubiquitous in cloud solutions, many other Google Cloud products provide integrations with Cloud Storage in various ways.
The gsutil tool is installed by default along with gcloud and bq when installing the Google Cloud SDK. Google also makes gsutil available by default in the Cloud Shell, the google/cloud-sdk Docker image, and most Google-provided Compute Engine ...
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