Delete Multiple Subfolders in S3 Bucket using AWS CLI

Question

Is it possible to delete multiple subfolders in S3 using the AWS CLI? There's include and exclude command specified in the documentation but I think it's for the S3 Items and not for folders?

Tried this command but its not working aws s3 rm s3://bucketname/*/*/foldertodelete --recursive

Sample folder structure:

bucketname/folder/subfolder/itemfolder
bucketname/folder/subfolder/foldertodelete

bucketname/anotherfolder/subfolder/itemfolder
bucketname/anotherfolder/subfolder/foldertodelete

bucketname/andanotherfolder/andsubfolder/itemfolder
bucketname/andanotherfolder/andsubfolder/foldertodelete

Did I missed something? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

S3 API doesn't support wildcard characters... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39857802/check-if-file-exists-in-s3-using-ls-and-wildcard — marekful, Jan 16 '19 at 10:52

A.Khan · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-16T11:05:43.873

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Try this: (Make sure you create a backup before running the command to avoid any unexpected result)

aws s3 rm s3://bucketname/ --exclude "*" --include "*foldertodelete/*" --recursive

Wildcard is not supported in the command's path argument.

edited Jan 16 '19 at 11:05

answered Jan 16 '19 at 10:59

A.Khan

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hmm strange because I've tested it and it seems to be working for me. Did you use `--include "*foldertodelete/*"` because I had updated it. You need to add * before `foldertodelete` – A.Khan Jan 16 '19 at 11:16
Now it works. My bad, I input a non-existing folder. Thank you! – Abdullah Jan 17 '19 at 01:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '21 at 03:37

You could use multiple --includes:

aws s3 rm s3://bucket --recursive --include "folder1/*" --include "foo/folder2/*"

...as well as multiple --excludes.

Note: the order of --include and --exclude matters, they are applied in order. Also default is --include "*" if nothing given.

Delete Multiple Subfolders in S3 Bucket using AWS CLI

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