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Can I Rename an Object or a Folder?

Updated on 2025-02-07 GMT+08:00

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Yes. You can run the mv command to rename an object or a folder. The following give two examples in Windows.

Running obsutil mv obs://bucket-test/key obs://bucket-test/key2 to rename object key to key2

obsutil mv obs://bucket-test/key obs://bucket-test/key2

Parallel:      5                   Jobs:          5
Threshold:     50.00MB             PartSize:      auto
CheckpointDir: xxxx

Move successfully, 19B, obs://bucket-test/key --> obs://bucket-test/key2, cost [96], status [200], request id [xxxxxxxxx]

Running obsutil mv obs://bucket-test/temp/ obs://bucket-test/temp2 -flat -f -r to rename folder temp to temp2

obsutil mv obs://bucket-test/temp/ obs://bucket-test/temp2/ -flat -f -r

Parallel:      5                   Jobs:          5
Threshold:     50.00MB             PartSize:      auto
CheckpointDir: xxxx
OutputDir: xxxx


[=============================================================] 100.00% tps:0.00 2/2 174ms
Succeed count:   5         Failed count:    0
Metrics [max cost:298 ms, min cost:192 ms, average cost:238.00 ms, average tps:9.71, transferred size:70B]

Task id: 0476929d-9d23-4dc5-b2f8-0a0493f027c5