I have an AWS S3 bucket test-bucket with a data folder. The data folder will have multiple files.
I am able to delete the files in the S3 bucket.
But what I want is to delete the files in the data folder without deleting the folder.
I tried the following:
aws s3 rm s3://test-bucket/data/*
Also checked using --recursive option, but that does not work.
Is there a way I can delete the files in the folder using AWS CLI?
you can do it using aws cli : https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ and some unix command.
this aws cli commands should work:
aws s3 rm s3://<your_bucket_name> --exclude "*" --include "<your_regex>"
if you want to include sub-folders you should add the flag --recursive
or with unix commands:
aws s3 ls s3://<your_bucket_name>/ | awk '{print $4}' | xargs -I% <your_os_shell> -c 'aws s3 rm s3:// <your_bucket_name>/% $1'
explanation: list all files on the bucket --pipe--> get the 4th parameter(its the file name) --pipe--> run delete script with aws cli
aws s3 rm s3://bucket/folder1/folder2/ --recursive --dryrun
From what I see happening when I try it, adding the slash at the end means delete below folder2, not including folder2.