Re: [S3tools-general] Delete files in S3 bcukets

[Sharadha K. <sha...@hi...>]

Hi Florent,

Yes, I have a bunch of files under a subfolder.

Alright got the point.



On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:34 PM Florent Viard (Sodria) <fl...@so...>
wrote:

> Hi Sharadha,
>
> Maybe it is because you just have this single file in folder1/folder2?
>
> In s3 you don't have the concept of 'files' and 'folders'. There are just
> files with a filename that can contains '/'.
> So we give the illusion of a file hierarchy based on the filename prefix
> but the folders in themselves doesn't exist.
>
> So, if you delete the single file in this part of the tree, you will not
> have any other files with the prefix folder1/folder2 and so you will think
> that the folders were deleted but it is just that they 'ever existed in the
> first place.
>
> If you had another file in folder1, it would still appear after the
> command.
>
> Regards,
>
> Florent
>
>
> Le mer. 16 déc. 2020 à 07:42, Sharadha Krishna <
> sha...@hi...> a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to delete files inside a particular folder in the s3 bucket.
>> For this I am using the command *s3cmd del
>> s3://bucket_name/folder1/folder2/file_name*.
>>
>> When I execute this, the entire directory structure gets deleted, meaning
>> folder1 and folder2 also get deleted along with the filename.
>>
>> So can someone let me know how to solve this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sharadha
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