How to exclude the particular folder in gcs bucket in google cloud while copying to local machine?

Question

I am trying to copy the files and folders from google cloud storage to vm machine using gsutil command but i need to exclude few of the folders in the gcs bucket while copying to vm, i tried searching for the options but i couldn't find it, please help if anyone knows the command for this.

Thanks in-advance,

Answer 1

For this you can use a command like:

gsutil -m rsync -r -x '^dir3/*' gs://bucket

this should retrieve all objects located on the bucket, except objects beginning with dir3 (files not located in dir3 directory in your example).

Here you can find more details about the rsync command