AWS Cli in Windows wont upload file to s3 bucket

Question

Windows server 12r2 with python 2.7.10 and the aws cli tool installed. The following works:

aws s3 cp c:\a\a.txt s3://path/

I can upload that file without problem. What I want to do is upload a file from a mapped drive to an s3 bucket, so I tried this:

aws s3 cp s:\path\file s3://path/

and it works.

Now what I want to do and cannot figure out is how to not specify, but let it grab all file(s) so I can schedule this to upload the contents of a directory to my s3 bucket. I tried this:

aws s3 cp "s:\path\..\..\" s3://path/ --recursive --include "201512"

and I get this error "TOO FEW ARGUMENTS"

Nearest I can guess it's mad I'm not putting a specific file to send up, but I don't want to do that, I want to automate all things.

If someone could please shed some light on what I'm missing I would really appreciate it.

Thank you

Answer 1

In case this is useful for anyone else coming after me: Add some extra spaces between the source and target. I've been beating my head against running this command with every combination of single quotes, double quotes, slashes, etc:

aws s3 cp /home/<username>/folder/ s3://<bucketID>/<username>/archive/ --recursive --exclude "*" --include "*.csv"

And it would give me: "aws: error: too few arguments" Every. Single. Way. I. Tried.

So finally saw the --debug option in aws s3 cp help so ran it again this way:

aws s3 cp /home/<username>/folder/ s3://<bucketID>/<username>/archive/ --recursive --exclude "*" --include "*.csv" --debug

And this was the relevant debug line:

MainThread - awscli.clidriver - DEBUG - Arguments entered to CLI: ['s3', 'cp', 'home/<username>/folder\xc2\xa0s3://<bucketID>/<username>/archive/', '--recursive', '--exclude', '*', '--include', '*.csv', '--debug']

I have no idea where \xc2\xa0 came from in between source and target, but there it is! Updated the line to add a couple extra spaces and now it runs without errors:

aws s3 cp /home/<username>/folder/   s3://<bucketID>/<username>/archive/ --recursive --exclude "*" --include "*.csv" 

Answer 2

aws s3 cp "s:\path\..\..\" s3://path/ --recursive --include "201512" TOO FEW ARGUMENTS

This is because, in you command, double-quote(") is escaped with backslash(\), so local path(s:\path\..\..\) is not parsed correctly.

What you need to do is to escape backslash with double backslashes, i.e. :

aws s3 cp "s:\\path\\..\\..\\" s3://path/ --recursive --include "201512"