Uploading and moving multiple files to a bucket subdirectory don't work as intended

[jterrace]

Original author: mfschwa...@google.com (April 25, 2012 15:19:59)

From messages posted by a gsutil user on gs-discussion and gsutil-discuss:

I have a set of files such that:
python gsutil ls gs://mybucket/x*.gz
gs:// mybucket /xaa.gz
gs:// mybucket /xas.gz
gs:// mybucket /xat.gz
gs:// mybucket /xau.gz
gs:// mybucket /xav.gz
gs:// mybucket /xaw.gz

And I want to move those files to:
gs://mybucket/mysubfolder/

I would have thought the gsutil mv command would work, but I get the error:
"CommandException: Destination URI must name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdirectory for the multiple source form of the cp command."

The command I'm running is:
C:\gsutil>python gsutil mv gs://mybucket/x*.gz gs://mybucket/mysubfolder/

No amount of playing around with the command line seems to be helping unfortunately. I'm using gsutil 3.1 if that helps.

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And in another message:

While I can upload files individually, I can't seem to specify uploading all the *.gz files.

Here are the commands I'm running (I'm running gsutil from Windows btw):

This is the command to upload 1 file (works fine, and resumable)
python gsutil -d -h "Content-Type: text/plain" cp file://F:\data\data_split\xaa.gz gs://mybucket/mysubdirectory/

I would have therefore thought the following would be the multiple file equivalent:
python gsutil -d -h "Content-Type: text/plain" cp file://F:\data\data_split*.gz gs://mybucket/mysubdirectory/

However, I get:
CommandException: Destination URI must name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdirectory for the multiple source form of the cp command.

The only way I can get it work as intend is by uploading into the bucket itself. This works correctly:
python gsutil -d -h "Content-Type: text/plain" cp file://F:\data\data_split*.gz gs://mybucket/

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/gsutil/issues/detail?id=93

[jterrace]

From mfschwa...@google.com on April 30, 2012 19:06:51
Fixed in gsutil 3.5

[xiuliren]

I am still getting

CommandException: Destination URI must name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdirectory for the multiple source form of the cp command.

while downloading to a directory. if I change the directory name, it works..
this local directory will not work
/tmp/neuroglancer/drosophila_v0/affinitymap-aligned_z32/rs-unet-cremi-64cores/
this will work
/tmp/neuroglancer/drosophila_v0/affinitymap-aligned_z32/

gsutil -v
gsutil version: 4.28

[sukiakiumo]

@jterrace I am also getting the same error on gsutil v 4.26

[sukiakiumo]

Must be an internal network connectivity issue, as I literally did nothing differently, reissued the command, and it worked.

[EvgeniiProkofev]

gsutil wont accept variable in path. I am getting error for this:
gsutil cp *.jar gs://cloud.bucket/$VAR/
VAR=1.42

CommandException: Destination URL must name a directory, bucket, or bucket
subdirectory for the multiple source form of the cp command.