Indradip Halder
Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer 2020
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what is the difference between the out from running these command- gsutil list gs:///* and gsutil list gs:///**
@cloudshell:~ (service-labs-257802)$ gsutil list gs://first-storage-bucket/*
gs://first-storage-bucket/AT1-An-anatomy-of-a-cyber-attack.drawio-6-2-4-2.xml
gs://first-storage-bucket/test/:
gs://first-storage-bucket/test/
gs://first-storage-bucket/test/AT1-An-anatomy-of-a-cyber-attack.drawio-6-2-4.jpg
@cloudshell:~ (service-labs-257802)$ gsutil list gs://first-storage-bucket/**
gs://first-storage-bucket/AT1-An-anatomy-of-a-cyber-attack.drawio-6-2-4-2.xml
gs://first-storage-bucket/test/
gs://first-storage-bucket/test/AT1-An-anatomy-of-a-cyber-attack.drawio-6-2-4.jpg
*@cloudshell:~ (service-labs-257802)$
1 Answers
Mattias Andersson
Hello! Good on you for trying things out and trying to make sense of it.
In this case, I think what’s going on is that * is telling gsutil to do a list (ls) on each of the objects that match that level of the hierarchy–and since one of them is a folder (it ends with a slash), it lists its contents. But try out putting in another level of hierarchy–does it show the contents of that level, too?
On the other hand, ** tells gsutil to show all of the objects under that folder but in a "flat" way–not showing all of the directory structure. And passing -r tells it to keep recursing into all subfolders.
Check out this gsutil ls documentation page for all the details. 🙂
Mattias