Recursive list s3 bucket contents with AWS CLI

Question

How can I recursively list all all the contents of a bucket using the AWS CLI similar to using find . on Unix.

aws s3 ls s3://MyBucket --recursive complains with unknown option.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/index.html#directory-and-s3-prefix-operations claims that --recursive is a valid parameter.

Answer 1

aws s3 ls s3://MyBucket --recursive works fine for me.

Try updating your AWS CLI. My version is aws-cli/1.6.2

aws --version

Answer 2

With recent AWS CLI versions, --recursive option is supported.

You can list recursively all the files under a bucket named MyBucket using following command:

aws s3 ls s3://MyBucket/ --recursive 

You can list recursively all the files under a folder named MyFolder in the bucket, using following command:

aws s3 ls s3://MyBucket/MyFolder/ --recursive 

For more information, see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/ls.html