amazon web services - Copy multiple files from s3 bucket

Question

I am having trouble downloading multiple files from AWS S3 buckets to my local machine.

I have all the filenames that I want to download and I do not want others. How can I do that ? Is there any kind of loop in aws-cli I can do some iteration ?

There are couple hundreds files I need to download so that it seems not possible to use one single command that takes all filenames as arguments.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38021661/copy-multiple-files-from-s3-bucket

Answer 1

Also one can use the --recursive option, as described in the documentation for cp command. It will copy all objects under a specified prefix recursively.

Example:

aws s3 cp s3://folder1/folder2/folder3 . --recursive

will grab all files under folder1/folder2/folder3 and copy them to local directory.