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Managing s3cmd profiles

Last updated on 01 October 2022

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I personally find it easier to use and more intuitive than the `aws` equivalent.

## Install `s3cmd`

The tool can be installed (on a Mac) via Homebrew:

brew install s3cmd

## Configure `s3cmd`

The tool comes with a `--configure` command in order to create a valid configuration file.

However, I need to deal with several storage accounts at any one time (for various things), and so it is useful for me to have separate profiles.

I keep these in my home directory. For example, my "personal" config file (`~/.s3personal`) looks like this (for Linode Object Storage):

[personal]

access_key = CHANGETHIS

secret_key = CHANGETHIS

host_base = eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com

host_bucket = %(bucket)s.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com

The `access_key` and `secret_key` can be provided by your storage provider.

You can create as many of these config files as required. I (currently) can't find a way to keep them nicely in one file, but there may be one.

## Using the profiles

The profiles can be used by including a `-c` flag in your calls to `s3cmd`.

For example, to use my personal profile to upload to a bucket I use:

s3cmd -c ~/.s3personal put FILE.png s3://BUCKET/path/FILE.png