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gsutil cp missing --parents

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gsutil cp does not offer the --parents flag. for example, doing gsutil cp gs://my-bucket/**/pom.xml . will end up with only one file on disk rather than all of the pom.xml files in the bucket. I would like to have cp preserve the parents of each copied file as in cp --parents on GNU cp.

Achieving this functionality by copying one by one and specifying the destination from outside gsutil is possible but slow.

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

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MariusGheorghecommented, Feb 3, 2021

Thanks for your reply. Well, I see that people made PRs for this 4.5 years ago and nothing was done. So I doubt that making another PR would change anything.

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MariusGheorghecommented, Feb 3, 2021

I was referring to the comment of @lawortsmann

From what I can find, there doesn’t seem to be any progress on adding this feature in any pull requests. If I have some bandwidth in the next couple of weeks I may try to work on implementing it.

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