gcloud beta cloud-shell scp - copies files between Cloud Shell and the local machine
gcloud beta cloud-shell scp (cloudshell|localhost):SRC [(cloudshell|localhost):SRC ...] (cloudshell|localhost):DEST [--dry-run] [--force-key-file-overwrite] [--recurse] [--scp-flag=SCP_FLAG] [--ssh-key-file] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
(BETA) gcloud beta cloud-shell scp copies files between your Cloud Shell instance and your local machine using the scp command.
To denote a file in Cloud Shell, prefix the file name with the string "cloudshell:" (e.g. cloudshell:~/FILE). To denote a local file, prefix the file name with the string "localhost:" (e.g. localhost:~/FILE). For example, to copy a remote directory to your local machine, run:
$ gcloud beta cloud-shell scp cloudshell:~/REMOTE-DIR \ localhost:~/LOCAL-DIR
In the above example, ~/REMOTE-DIR from your Cloud Shell instance is copied into the ~/LOCAL-DIR directory.
Conversely, files from your local computer can be copied into Cloud Shell:
$ gcloud beta cloud-shell scp localhost:~/LOCAL-FILE-1 \ localhost:~/LOCAL-FILE-2 cloudshell:~/REMOTE-DIR
Under the covers, scp(1) or pscp (on Windows) is used to facilitate the transfer.
- (cloudshell|localhost):SRC [(cloudshell|localhost):SRC ...]
Specifies the files to copy.
- (cloudshell|localhost):DEST
Specifies a destination for the source files.
- --dry-run
If provided, prints the command that would be run to standard out instead of executing it.
- --force-key-file-overwrite
If enabled gcloud will regenerate and overwrite the files associated with a broken SSH key without asking for confirmation in both interactive and non-interactive environment.
If disabled gcloud will not attempt to regenerate the files associated with a broken SSH key and fail in both interactive and non-interactive environment.
- --recurse
Upload directories recursively.
- --scp-flag=SCP_FLAG
Extra flag to be sent to scp. This flag may be repeated.
- --ssh-key-file
The path to the SSH key file. By default, this is ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine.
These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These variants are also available:
$ gcloud cloud-shell scp
$ gcloud alpha cloud-shell scp