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David Romero Mogrovejo
David Romero Mogrovejo

Reputation: 37

How to use gcloud compute scp?

I want to download this file

to my computer, but I don't understand the command 

gcloud compute scp --recurse [INSTANCE_NAME]:[REMOTE_DIR] [LOCAL_DIR]

The instance is the name of my file??

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9164

Answers (1)

ScottMcC
ScottMcC

Reputation: 4460

From https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/scp

[INSTANCE_NAME] refers to the name of the target instance that you are transferring files to. The following example is taken from the above reference.

To copy a remote directory, ~/narnia, from example-instance to the ~/wardrobe directory of your local host, run:

$ gcloud compute scp --recurse example-instance:~/narnia ~/wardrobe

Edit:

After looking a bit closer at your image, it looks like you're trying to copy files from Cloud Storage? If you're looking to copy files from a Cloud Storage bucket you will need to use the gsutil cli tool. To copy a file from a directory you'll need to use the gsutil cp command.

See the following for more information and examples: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/cp

Upvotes: 6

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