Appendix A. Swift CLI Commands
This appendix provides details on the set of commands that can be run from a Swift CLI session. These commands can be used to perform CRUD operations.
Commands
The commands that can be run from the Swift CLI are list
, stat
, post
, upload
, download
, and delete
. Each command has a detailed help menu, which can be displayed by running the swift <command> –h
command, for example, swift list -h
.
list
The list
command is used to list the containers for an account or the objects for a container. The following code shows the usage of the list
command along with arguments:
# swift list <container> -A Auth_URL –U User –K Key --os-username=<auth-user-name> --os-password=<auth-password> --os-tenant-id=<auth-tenant-id> ...
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