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Copying files from Google Cloud Storage to Local

— GCS, gsutil, GCP — 1 min read

Trying to download multiple files from google cloud storage at times can be frustrating, when there is no option to download all files from bucket. You will have to download one file at a time.

An idea popped in my head to solve this problem.

# The Plan

  1. Open Cloud shell
  2. Create a folder and copy all the files from bucket to this folder.
  3. Zip the folder
  4. Copy the zip file to Cloud storage
  5. Download the zip file.

# Code

  1. Open Google Cloud Shell and set the GCP project and create a folder 

    gcloud config set project bobbydreamer 
    

    mkdir V1-bobbydreamer.com 
    cd V1-bobbydreamer.com

  2. Copy all the files from bucket to the folder we are in 

    gsutil -m cp -r gs://www.bobbydreamer.com/* .

  3. Zip the folder . -r for recursive

    cd ..
    

    zip -r V1-bobbydreamer.com.zip V1-bobbydreamer.com/

  4. Moving files from shell to bucket

    gsutil -m cp V1-bobbydreamer.com.zip gs://sushanth-personalfiles/

  5. Go to cloud storage into the bucket and click on the 3-dots and select download.