Can I Rename an Object or a Folder?

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

  

  When renaming a folder, you must add the -flat parameter.