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Saqib Ali
Saqib Ali

Reputation: 12645

How to delete multiple files in S3 bucket with AWS CLI

Suppose I have an S3 bucket named x.y.z

In this bucket, I have hundreds of files. But I only want to delete 2 files named purple.gif and worksheet.xlsx

Can I do this from the AWS command line tool with a single call to rm?

This did not work:

$ aws s3 rm s3://x.y.z/worksheet.xlsx s3://x.y.z/purple.gif
Unknown options: s3://x.y.z/purple.gif

From the manual, it doesn't seem like you can delete a list of files explicitly by name. Does anyone know a way to do it? I prefer not using the --recursive flag.

Upvotes: 81

Views: 143345

Answers (11)

samira
samira

Reputation: 175

This command deletes all files and directories in the bucket, leaving it completely empty:

aws s3 rm s3://bucketname --recursive

Upvotes: 14

George L. Yermulnik
George L. Yermulnik

Reputation: 126

FWIW: the below is an excerpt from my ~/.aws/cli/alias hence relies upon dash which is /bin/sh on my Ubuntu (I wished it was bash though):

myopts="--region us-east-1 --profile my-aws-cli-profile-name"
BUCKET_NAME="my-bucket-name"

for TYPE in Versions DeleteMarkers; do
  if [ "$(aws $myopts s3api list-object-versions --bucket "$BUCKET_NAME" --max-items 1 --query "$TYPE" --output json)" != "null" ]; then
    echo "INFO: Removing $TYPE"
    aws $myopts s3api list-object-versions --bucket "$BUCKET_NAME" --query "$TYPE[].[Key, VersionId]" --output text | {
      while read KEY VERSION; do
        [ "$KEY" = "None" ] && continue
        TARGET="$TARGET,{Key=$KEY,VersionId=$VERSION}"
        TARGET=${TARGET#,}
        COUNTER=$(expr $COUNTER + 1)

        [ $(expr $COUNTER % 100) -ne 0 ] && continue

        echo "INFO: $COUNTER"
        aws $myopts s3api delete-objects --bucket "$BUCKET_NAME" --delete "Objects=[$TARGET],Quiet=true" >/dev/null || return $?
        unset TARGET
      done
      if [ -n "$TARGET" ]; then
        echo "INFO: $COUNTER"
        aws $myopts s3api delete-objects --bucket "$BUCKET_NAME" --delete "Objects=[$TARGET],Quiet=true" >/dev/null || return $?
      fi
    }
  fi
done

The 100 in the middle of the code snippet is how many objects to pass to each delete-objects API call. This must not be greater than 1000.

Upvotes: 0

Anandkumar
Anandkumar

Reputation: 1512

aws s3 rm s3://<bucketname>/2023/ --recursive --exclude '*' --include 'A*.csv'

None of the answers above mentions how to use a wildcard expression to choose multiple files and delete.

if your usecase is to choose multiple objects in S3 with a naming pattern and delete, the above command will be useful

Upvotes: 11

rmuller
rmuller

Reputation: 12869

You can delete multiple files using aws s3 rm. If you want to delete all files in a specific folder, just use

aws s3 rm --recursive --region <AWS_REGION> s3://<AWS_BUCKET>/<FOLDER_PATH>/

first test it with the --dryrun option!

Upvotes: 3

user3560329
user3560329

Reputation: 1

Quick way to delete a very large Folder in AWS

AWS_PROFILE=<AWS_PROFILE> AWS_BUCKET=<AWS_BUCKET> AWS_FOLDER=<AWS_FOLDER>; aws --profile $AWS_PROFILE s3 ls "s3://${AWS_BUCKET}/${AWS_FOLDER}/" | awk '{print $4}' | xargs -P8 -n1000 bash -c 'aws --profile '${AWS_PROFILE}' s3api delete-objects --bucket '${AWS_BUCKET}' --delete "Objects=[$(printf "{Key='${AWS_FOLDER}'/%s}," "$@")],Quiet=true" >/dev/null 2>&1'

PS: This might be launch 2/3 times because sometimes, some deletion fails...

Upvotes: 0

Thyag
Thyag

Reputation: 1315

Apparently aws s3 rm works only on individual files/objects.

Below is a bash command that constructs individual delete commands and then removes the objects one by one. Works with some success (might be bit slow, but works):

aws s3 ls s3://bucketname/foldername/ | 
awk {'print "aws s3 rm s3://bucketname/foldername/" $4'} | 
bash

The first two lines are meant to construct the "rm" commands and the 3rd line (bash) will execute them.

Note that you might face issues if your object names have spaces or funny characters. This is because "aws s3 ls" command won't list such objects (as of this writing)

Upvotes: 16

spg
spg

Reputation: 9847

s3 rm cannot delete multiple files, but you can use s3api delete-objects to achieve what you want here.

Example

aws s3api delete-objects --bucket x.y.z --delete '{"Objects":[{"Key":"worksheet.xlsx"},{"Key":"purple.gif"}]}'

Upvotes: 43

coder
coder

Reputation: 4429

I found this one useful through the command line. I had more than 4 million files and it took almost a week to empty the bucket. This comes handy as the AWS console is not descriptive with the logs.

Note: You need the jq tool installed.

 aws s3api list-object-versions --bucket YOURBUCKETNAMEHERE-processed \
     --output json --query 'Versions[].[Key, VersionId]' \
     | jq -r '.[] | "--key '\''" + .[0] + "'\'' --version-id " + .[1]' \
     | xargs -L1 aws s3api delete-object --bucket YOURBUCKETNAMEHERE

Upvotes: 2

Paul Sheldrake
Paul Sheldrake

Reputation: 7831

If you are using AWS CLI you can filter LS results with grep regex and delete them. For example

aws s3 ls s3://BUCKET | awk '{print $4}' | grep -E -i '^2015-([0-9][0-9])\-([0-9][0-9])\-([0-9][0-9])\-([0-9][0-9])\-([0-9][0-9])\-([0-9a-zA-Z]*)' | xargs -I% bash -c 'aws s3 rm s3://BUCKET/%'

This is slow but it works

Upvotes: 2

Yogesh Patil
Yogesh Patil

Reputation: 77

This solution will work when you want to specify wildcard for object name. 

aws s3 ls dmap-live-dwh-files/backup/mongodb/oms_api/hourly/ | grep order_2019_08_09_* | awk {'print "aws s3 rm s3://dmap-live-dwh-files/backup/mongodb/oms_api/hourly/" $4'} | bash

Upvotes: 1

Khalid T.
Khalid T.

Reputation: 10567

You can do this by providing an --exclude or --include argument multiple times. But, you'll have to use --recursive for this to work.

When there are multiple filters, remember that the order of the filter parameters is important. The rule is the filters that appear later in the command take precedence over filters that appear earlier in the command.

aws s3 rm s3://x.y.z/ --recursive --exclude "*" --include "purple.gif" --include "worksheet.xlsx"

Here, all files will be excluded from the command except for purple.gif and worksheet.xlsx.

If you're unsure, always try a --dryrun first and inspect which files will be deleted.

Source: Use of Exclude and Include Filters

Upvotes: 155

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