Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

Transferring files with gcloud

Transferring files back and forth from your machine (or any other location) and your instance is done via Gcloud's version of the .csp command:

• To send a local file to your instance $HOME folder:

$ gcloud compute scp ~/LOCAL-FILE :~/

• For instance, to send a file titled hello_world.txt to sparrow, you would run this:

$ gcloud compute scp ~/hello_world.txt  sparrow:~/

• Similarly, to download a file from the instance to your local machine $HOME folder:

$ gcloud compute scp  <instance-name>:~/REMOTE-FILE ~/

We will explore the gsutil and bq command-line tools in the next chapter and the Datalab CLI in Chapter 4, Querying Your data with BigQuery.