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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Associate Cloud Engineer · Domain 3: Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution

Managing Cloud Storage objects with gcloud storage and moving data with Storage Transfer Service

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The gcloud storage command group is the current CLI for Cloud Storage and replaces most uses of the older gsutil. Buckets and objects are addressed with gs:// URLs. Common commands: gcloud storage ls gs://my-bucket lists objects; gcloud storage cp report.csv gs://my-bucket/reports/ uploads; gcloud storage cp -r ./site gs://my-bucket copies a folder; gcloud storage mv moves or renames; gcloud storage rm gs://my-bucket/old/** deletes; and gcloud storage rsync synchronizes a directory with a bucket prefix. Large transfers are parallelized automatically.

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