renaming files in Google Cloud Storage?

Question

Can you rename files in Google Cloud Storage?

I am letting users upload photos, but I want to give them the ability to edit the photo, at least by changing the name they uploaded it with. I am using Javascript through Node.js.

Thanks!

Answer 1

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Here is Python function performs a multi-threaded/multi-processing move:

from subprocess import call, CalledProcessError

def rename_object(self, old_dir, new_dir):
    base_cmd = ["gsutil", "-m", "mv"]
    old_path = "gs://{}".format(old_dir)
    new_path = "gs://{}".format(new_dir)
    cmd = base_cmd + [old_path, new_path]
    try:
        call(cmd)
    except CalledProcessError as e:
        print e

Answer 2

This command:

gsutil mv gs://my_bucket/olddir gs://my_bucket/newdir

will do the job. If you have a large number of files you need to do a multi-processing move, so use this command:

gsutil -m mv gs://my_bucket/olddir gs://my_bucket/newdir

You can find this information in the docs.