AWS CLI "s3 ls" command to list a date range of files in a virtual folder

Question

I'm trying to list files from a virtual folder in S3 within a specific date range. For example: all the files that have been uploaded for the month of February.

I currently run a aws s3 ls command but that gives all the files:

aws s3 ls s3://Bucket/VirtualFolder/VirtualFolder --recursive --human-readable --summarize > c:File.txt

How can I get it to list only the files within a given date range?

Answer 1

You could filter the results with a tool like awk:

aws s3 ls s3://Bucket/VirtualFolder/VirtualFolder --recursive --human-readable --summarize \
| awk -F'[-: ]' '$1 >= 2016 && $2 >= 3 { print }'

Where awk splits each records using -, :, and space delimiters so you can address fields as:

• $1 - year
• $2 - month
• $3 - day
• $4 - hour
• $5 - minute
• $6 - second