osscmd is a Python 2.x-based command line tool. You can use this tool to manage buckets and objects.

Note Commands supported by the osscmd tool have been integrated with the ossutil tool. The osscmd tool is no longer available for downloads as of July 31, 2019.

Scenarios

You can use the osscmd tool in the following scenarios:
  • API-based development and debugging. You can use the osscmd tool to send a request in a specific format and perform multipart upload step by step.
  • Bucket-based configurations. You can use the osscmd tool to configure logging, website, and lifecycle rules for buckets.

Limits

  • The osscmd tool supports Python versions 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 only.
  • The osscmd tool is developed based on Python SDK 0.x. However, Python SDK 2.x.x instead of Python SDK 0.x is maintained.
  • Only bugs of the osscmd tool can be fixed. You cannot use the tool to configure new features such as the storage class of infrequent access (IA) or Archive, cross-region replication (CRR), and back-to-origin.

Use the osscmd tool

After you have downloaded and decompressed the Python SDK, run the python osscmd + operation command in the directory where the osscmd tool resides. For example, run the following command to upload a file to a bucket: 

python  osscmd  put  myfile.txt  oss://mybucket
Note In the commands that are supported by the osscmd tool, oss://bucket specifies a bucket. oss://bucket/object specifies a bucket or an object. oss:// is only a format used to specify resources.

To obtain a detailed list of commands, run the python osscmd command.

To obtain a detailed list of command parameters, run the python osscmd help command.