IMPORTANT: gsutil is not the recommended CLI for Cloud Storage. Use gcloud storage commands in the Google Cloud CLI instead.

• The gsutil tool is a legacy Cloud Storage CLI and minimally maintained.
• The gsutil tool does not support working with newer Cloud Storage features, such as soft delete and managed folders.
• gcloud storage commands require less manual optimization in order to achieve the fastest upload and download rates.

gsutil

gsutil is a Python application that lets you access Google Cloud Storage from the command line. You can use gsutil to do a wide range of bucket and object management tasks, including:

• Creating and deleting buckets.
• Uploading, downloading, and deleting objects.
• Listing buckets and objects.
• Moving, copying, and renaming objects.
• Editing object and bucket ACLs.

Installation

For installation instructions, please see:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install

Testing / Development

The gsutil source code is available at https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil

See https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/addlhelp/ContributingCodetogsutil for best practices on how to contribute code changes to the gsutil repository.

Help and Support

Run the "gsutil help" command for a list of the built-in gsutil help topics.

You can also browse the help pages online at:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil

For community support, visit:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/resources-support#community