Upload Files with / (using windows)

[Chetan Shah]

I want to upload files which are stored on multiple subdirectories on
my local drive (windows OS). I understand that google cloud storage
has a flat structure and therefore while using gsutil's recursive
option (-R) it will upload all the files recursively from to the
respective bucket name mentioned in the gsutil 's cp -R * gs://<Bucketname>
command. While doing this it appends the path name to the file name
so that the web page references are not broken if the user is hosting
a website and is using the cloud storage to host static files. This is
perfect.

With one issue.

I am using windows and my the host infrastructure is unix based. So
when I upload my files using gsutil from my desktop the files names
get prepended with subdir1\subdir2\file.html instead of subdir1/
subdir2/file.html.

I would highly appreciate if you would please let me know to fix this
so that I can use gsutil to upload my files and then have the correct
path prepended which will look like subdir1/subdir2/file.html

I have tried using cygwin also but i have gotten the same result.

[Mike Schwartz (Google Storage Team)]

Hi Chetan,

I just tried to reproduce the problem you reported like this:

From windows machine:

python gsutil cp -R gslib gs://my_bucket 

From Linux:

gsutil cp -R gs://my_bucket/gslib .

The paths were correctly converted to having / in the Linux path names.

Can you please tell us the exact commands you typed to upload from Windows and then download from Linux?

Thanks,

Mike

[Chetan Shah]

Hi Mike -

Below is the command snippet and the respective output :

c:\code\a_dir>python c:\code\gsutil\gsutil cp b_dir/pc/*.html
gs://<mybucket>
Copying file://b_dir/pc\9639.html...
[Setting Content-Type=text/html]
Copying file://b_dir/pc\9640.html...
[Setting Content-Type=text/html]
Copying file://b_dir/pc\9641.html...
[Setting Content-Type=text/html]

After the latest release (3.1), I was able to avoid this by creating
actual sub directories on cloud storage and executing the following
command :
python c:\code\gsutil\gsutil cp -R *.html gs://<mybucket>/subdir1/subdir2

But it is a workaround so my original problem still exists.

On Mar 20, 9:24 pm, "Mike Schwartz (Google Storage Team)" <gs-

[Mike Schwartz (Google Storage Team)]

Hi Chetan,

Thanks for the clarification. I have opened a gsutil issue about this, including the currently needed workaround. Note that you can add yourself to the Cc list to be informed of any developments on this issue.

Mike