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NAME
swift - OpenStack Swift client tool
SYNOPSIS
swift [options] <command> [args]
DESCRIPTION
The swift tool is a command line utility for communicating with an OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
environment. It allows one to perform several types of operations.
COMMANDS
stat [container] [object]
Displays information for the account, container, or object depending on the args given (if any). In
verbose mode, the Storage URL and the authentication token are displayed as well.
list [command-options] [container]
Lists the containers for the account or the objects for a container. The -p or --prefix is an option
that will only list items beginning with that prefix. The -d or --delimiter is option (for container
listings only) that will roll up items with the given delimiter (see OpenStack Swift general
documentation for what this means).
The -l and --lh options provide more detail, similar to ls -l and ls -lh, the latter providing sizes
in human readable format (eg 3K, 12M, etc). These latter 2 switches use more overhead to get those
details, which is directly proportional to the number of container or objects being listed.
upload [command-options] container file_or_directory [file_or_directory] [...]
Uploads to the given container the files and directories specified by the remaining args. The -c or
--changed is an option that will only upload files that have changed since the last upload. The
--object-name <object-name> is an option that will upload file and name object to <object-name> or
upload dir and use <object-name> as object prefix. The -S <size> or --segment-size <size> and
--leave-segments are options as well (see --help for more).
post [command-options] [container] [object]
Updates meta information for the account, container, or object depending on the args given. If the
container is not found, it will be created automatically; but this is not true for accounts and
objects. Containers also allow the -r (or --read-acl) and -w (or --write-acl) options. The -m or
--meta option is allowed on all and used to define the user meta data items to set in the form
Name:Value. This option can be repeated. Example: post -m Color:Blue -m Size:Large
download [command-options] [container] [object] [object] [...]
Downloads everything in the account (with --all), or everything in a container, or a list of objects
depending on the args given. For a single object download, you may use the -o [--output] <filename>
option to redirect the output to a specific file or if "-" then just redirect to stdout. You can
specify optional headers with the repeatable cURL-like option -H [--header].
delete [command-options] [container] [object] [object] [...]
Deletes everything in the account (with --all), or everything in a container, or a list of objects
depending on the args given. Segments of manifest objects will be deleted as well, unless you specify
the --leave-segments option.
capabilities [proxy-url]
Displays cluster capabilities. The output includes the list of the activated Swift middlewares as
well as relevant options for each ones. Addtionaly the command displays relevant options for the
Swift core. If the proxy-url option is not provided the storage-url retrieved after authentication is
used as proxy-url.
OPTIONS
--version Show program's version number and exit
-h, --help Show this help message and exit
-s, --snet Use SERVICENET internal network
-v, --verbose Print more info
-q, --quiet Suppress status output
-A AUTH, --auth=AUTH URL for obtaining an auth token
-U USER, --user=USER User name for obtaining an auth token
-V 1|2 Authentication protocol version
-K KEY, --key=KEY Key for obtaining an auth token
--os-storage-url=URL Use this instead of URL returned from auth
EXAMPLE
swift -A https://127.0.0.1:443/auth/v1.0 -U swiftops:swiftops -K swiftops stat
Account: AUTH_43b42dae-dc0b-4a4b-ac55-97de614d6e6e
Containers: 1
Objects: 1
Bytes: 1124
Accept-Ranges: bytes
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DOCUMENTATION
More in depth documentation about OpenStack Swift as a whole can be found at http://swift.openstack.org