renaming files in Google Cloud Storage?

Question

Can you rename files in Google Cloud Storage?

I am letting users upload photos, but I want to give them the ability to edit the photo, at least by changing the name they uploaded it with. I am using Javascript through Node.js.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This command:

gsutil mv gs://my_bucket/olddir gs://my_bucket/newdir

will do the job. If you have a large number of files you need to do a multi-processing move, so use this command:

gsutil -m mv gs://my_bucket/olddir gs://my_bucket/newdir

You can find this information in the docs.