How to display just the name of files using aws s3 ls command

Question

I am using the aws cli to list the files in an s3 bucket using the following command

aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --recursive --human-readable --summarize

This command gives me date , time , size and the file name. But i just want the file names to be displayed.

Is there a way to achieve that?

Answer 1

You can't do this with just the aws command, but you can easily pipe it to another command to strip out the portion you don't want. You also need to remove the --human-readable flag to get output easier to work with, and the --summarize flag to remove the summary data at the end.

Try this:

aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --recursive | awk '{print $4}'

Edit: to take spaces in filenames into account:

aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --recursive | awk '{$1=$2=$3=""; print $0}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' 

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Comments

What does " {$1=$2=$3=""; print $0} " command is doing, to print the file name and file size use the following command:

aws s3 ls s3://bucket_name --recursive | awk '{$1=$2="";print $4","$3}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'

Answer 2

aws s3 ls s3://<your_bucket_name>/ | awk '{print $4}'

the 4th parameter is the filename

Comments

Don't I need to use --recursive?