Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

gsutil cheatsheet

The following is a list of the most-used commands that we can issue via gsutil:

• Creating a bucket named packt-gcp:
  • gsutil mb gs://packt-gcp

• Uploading a file to the bucket:

  • gsutil cp gs://packt-gcp/
• Creating a subfolder in the bucket:
  • gsutil cp your-file gs://packt-gcp/
• Listing the folder:
  • gsutil ls gs://packt-gcp/
• Getting help on gsutil commands:
  • gsutil help

• How much storage are we using (the -h makes it readable):
  • gsutil du -h gs://packt-gcp/
• Copying a whole folder to a bucket:
  • gsutil cp -r gs://packt-gcp/

For instance, I have a local ./img directory with some images. I can copy the whole directory and create the bucket subdirectory at the same time with the following command:

gsutil cp -r ./img ...