Suppose I have an S3 bucket named x.y.z
In this bucket, I have hundreds of files. But I only want to delete 2 files named purple.gif and worksheet.xlsx
Can I do this from the AWS command line tool with a single call to rm?
This did not work:
$ aws s3 rm s3://x.y.z/worksheet.xlsx s3://x.y.z/purple.gif
Unknown options: s3://x.y.z/purple.gif
From the manual, it doesn't seem like you can delete a list of files explicitly by name. Does anyone know a way to do it? I prefer not using the --recursive flag.
s3 rm cannot delete multiple files, but you can use s3api delete-objects to achieve what you want here.
Example
aws s3api delete-objects --bucket x.y.z --delete '{"Objects":[{"Key":"worksheet.xlsx"},{"Key":"purple.gif"}]}'