- NAME
-
- gcloud beta compute copy-files - copy files to and from Google Compute Engine virtual machines via scp
- SYNOPSIS
-
-
gcloud beta compute copy-files
[[USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
[[[USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
…] [[USER
@]INSTANCE
:]DEST
[--dry-run
] [--force-key-file-overwrite
] [--plain
] [--ssh-key-file
=SSH_KEY_FILE
] [--strict-host-key-checking
=STRICT_HOST_KEY_CHECKING
] [--zone
=ZONE
] [--ssh-key-expiration
=SSH_KEY_EXPIRATION
|--ssh-key-expire-after
=SSH_KEY_EXPIRE_AFTER
] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …
]
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
(BETA)
gcloud beta compute copy-files
copies files between a virtual machine instance and your local machine using the scp command. This command does not work for Windows VMs.To denote a remote file, prefix the file name with the virtual machine instance name (e.g.,
example-instance
:~/FILE
). To denote a local file, do not add a prefix to the file name (e.g., ~/FILE
).If a file contains a colon (``:´´), you must specify it by either using an absolute path or a path that begins with ``./´´.
Under the covers,
scp(1)
or pscp (on Windows) is used to facilitate the transfer.When the destination is local, all sources must be the same virtual machine instance. When the destination is remote, all sources must be local.
- EXAMPLES
-
To copy a remote directory '~/REMOTE-DIR' on the instance of 'example-instance'
to '~/LOCAL-DIR' on the local host, run:
gcloud beta compute copy-files example-instance:~/REMOTE-DIR ~/LOCAL-DIR --zone=us-central1-a
To copy files from your local host to a virtual machine, run:
gcloud beta compute copy-files ~/LOCAL-FILE-1 ~/LOCAL-FILE-2 example-instance:~/REMOTE-DIR --zone=us-central1-a
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
-
- [[
USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
[[[USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
…] - Specifies the files to copy.
- [[
USER
@]INSTANCE
:]DEST
- Specifies a destination for the source files.
- [[
- FLAGS
-
--dry-run
- Print the equivalent scp/ssh command that would be run to stdout, instead of executing it.
--force-key-file-overwrite
-
If enabled, the gcloud command-line tool will regenerate and overwrite the files
associated with a broken SSH key without asking for confirmation in both
interactive and non-interactive environments.
If disabled, the files associated with a broken SSH key will not be regenerated and will fail in both interactive and non-interactive environments.
--plain
-
Suppress the automatic addition of
ssh(1)
/scp(1)
flags. This flag is useful if you want to take care of authentication yourself or use specific ssh/scp features. --ssh-key-file
=SSH_KEY_FILE
-
The path to the SSH key file. By default, this is
.~/.ssh/google_compute_engine
--strict-host-key-checking
=STRICT_HOST_KEY_CHECKING
-
Override the default behavior of StrictHostKeyChecking for the connection. By
default, StrictHostKeyChecking is set to 'no' the first time you connect to an
instance, and will be set to 'yes' for all subsequent connections.
STRICT_HOST_KEY_CHECKING
must be one of:yes
,no
,ask
. --zone
=ZONE
-
The zone of the instance to copy files to/from.
If not specified and the
property isn't set, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only).compute/zone
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the
property:compute/zone
gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE
A list of zones can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute zones list
To unset the property, run:
gcloud config unset compute/zone
Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable
.CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE
-
At most one of these can be specified:
--ssh-key-expiration
=SSH_KEY_EXPIRATION
- The time when the ssh key will be valid until, such as "2017-08-29T18:52:51.142Z." This is only valid if the instance is not using OS Login. See $ gcloud topic datetimes for information on time formats.
--ssh-key-expire-after
=SSH_KEY_EXPIRE_AFTER
- The maximum length of time an SSH key is valid for once created and installed, e.g. 2m for 2 minutes. See $ gcloud topic datetimes for information on duration formats.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
-
These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file
,--account
,--billing-project
,--configuration
,--flags-file
,--flatten
,--format
,--help
,--impersonate-service-account
,--log-http
,--project
,--quiet
,--trace-token
,--user-output-enabled
,--verbosity
.Run
$ gcloud help
for details. - NOTES
-
This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud compute copy-files
gcloud alpha compute copy-files
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Last updated 2024-06-04 UTC.