AWS CLI S3 sync only over selected files?

Question

I need synchronize two AWS S3 buckets, but I need sync only the files in a list. This is the scenario:

BucketA:

File1.jpg Deleted  
File2.jpg Modified
File3.jpg Deleted
File4.jpg Modified
File5.jpg Modified
File6.jpg New

BucketB:

File1.jpg 
File2.jpg 
File3.jpg 
File4.jpg 
File5.jpg 

I'm looking for a command like this:

aws s3 sync s3://BucketA s3://BucketB --delete --exclude "*" --include "File1.jpg;File2.jpg;File4.jpg"

The result BucketB must be like this:

File1.jpg deleted
File2.jpg Modified
File3.jpg No changed
File4.jpg Modified
File5.jpg No changed

Any idea?

Answer 1

It looks like this is achievable, except for the deletion part.

This command will sync only the specified files:

aws s3 sync s3://bucketA s3://bucketB --exclude "*" --include "File1.jpg" --include "File2.jpg" --include "File4.jpg"

However, the --delete parameter seems to only look at the files in BucketA that are included in the --include parameter, causing all other files to 'invisible' and therefore deleted from BucketB.

This command:

aws s3 sync s3://bucketA s3://bucketB --delete --exclude "*" --include "File1.jpg" --include "File2.jpg" --include "File4.jpg"

actually deletes all files except File2.jpg and File4.jpg. So, it doesn't look like you can do a selective delete in the expected manner.

Here's a script to test all of the above:

aws s3 cp foo s3://bucketa/File1.jpg
aws s3 cp foo s3://bucketa/File2.jpg
aws s3 cp foo s3://bucketa/File3.jpg
aws s3 cp foo s3://bucketa/File4.jpg
aws s3 cp foo s3://bucketa/File5.jpg
aws s3 sync s3://bucketa s3://bucketb
aws s3 rm s3://bucketa/File1.jpg
aws s3 rm s3://bucketa/File3.jpg
aws s3 cp foo s3://bucketa/File6.jpg
aws s3 cp bar s3://bucketa/File2.jpg
aws s3 cp bar s3://bucketa/File4.jpg
aws s3 cp bar s3://bucketa/File5.jpg

aws s3 ls s3://bucketa
2015-07-23 08:50:44         49 File2.jpg
2015-07-23 08:50:49         49 File4.jpg
2015-07-23 08:50:53         49 File5.jpg
2015-07-23 08:50:20         24 File6.jpg

aws s3 ls s3://bucketb
2015-07-23 08:49:35         24 File1.jpg
2015-07-23 08:49:35         24 File2.jpg
2015-07-23 08:49:36         24 File3.jpg
2015-07-23 08:49:36         24 File4.jpg
2015-07-23 08:49:36         24 File5.jpg 

aws s3 sync s3://bucketa s3://bucketb --exclude "*" --include "File1.jpg" --include "File2.jpg" --include "File4.jpg"