s3 ls --short

[pixarbuff]

Currently the command aws s3 ls --recursive mybucket gives long-form results with timestamp, filesize, and key:

2021-11-04 14:29:56    3714945 sub/foo.csv
2021-11-19 22:58:25    3706448 bar.csv
2021-11-30 17:01:54        485 baz.csv

It would be nice to specify an option to show short-form results that give the key only, like

aws s3 ls --short --recursive mybucket
sub/foo.csv
bar.csv
baz.csv

without resorting to external commands to parse out the key, as described in these answers on stackoverflow

[stobrien89]

Hi @pixarbuff,

Thanks for the feature request! We'll leave this open for tracking purposes for right now. For anyone who is interested in this feature, please leave a reaction on the original post.

[sudarshanvm]

@stobrien89 @pixarbuff I am working on adding this feature in aws list commands

[stobrien89]

Hi all,

Just wanted to post a workaround for the time being (also mentioned in the linked stackoverflow article) for better visibility.

It is possible to filter output using jq or awk, but not all customers will have access to these utilities. The CLI has built-in client-side filtering via the --query option, which utilizes JMESpath to filter JSON output.

The desired result can be achieved by using the S3Api list-objects-v2 operation (which ls uses under the hood for listing objects):

aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket "bucket-name" --query "Contents[].Key[]"

Note: The query option will not work for ls as the output is not serialized into JSON.