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gcloud compute copy-files
[[USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
[[[USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
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@]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 …
]
gcloud 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.
gcloud 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 compute copy-files ~/LOCAL-FILE-1 ~/LOCAL-FILE-2 example-instance:~/REMOTE-DIR --zone=us-central1-a
USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
[[[USER
@]INSTANCE
:]SRC
…]
USER
@]INSTANCE
:]DEST
--dry-run
--force-key-file-overwrite
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
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
~/.ssh/google_compute_engine
.
--strict-host-key-checking
=STRICT_HOST_KEY_CHECKING
STRICT_HOST_KEY_CHECKING
must be one of: yes
, no
, ask
.
--zone
=ZONE
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
--ssh-key-expiration
=SSH_KEY_EXPIRATION
--ssh-key-expire-after
=SSH_KEY_EXPIRE_AFTER
--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.
gcloud alpha compute copy-files
gcloud beta compute copy-files
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