NAME

s3put - Write an S3 item

SYNOPSIS

s3put [options] [ bucket/item ...]

 Options:
   --access-key    AWS Access Key ID
   --secret-key    AWS Secret Access Key
 Environment:
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET

OPTIONS

--help

Print a brief help message and exits.

--man

Prints the manual page and exits.

--verbose

Output what is being done as it is done.

--access-key and --secret-key

Specify the "AWS Access Key Identifiers" for the AWS account. --access-key is the "Access Key ID", and --secret-key is the "Secret Access Key". These are effectively the "username" and "password" to the AWS account, and should be kept confidential.

The access keys MUST be specified, either via these command line parameters, or via the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables.

Specifying them on the command line overrides the environment variables.

--secure

Uses SSL/TLS HTTPS to communicate with the AWS service, instead of HTTP.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET

Specify the "AWS Access Key Identifiers" for the AWS account. AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID contains the "Access Key ID", and AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET contains the "Secret Access Key". These are effectively the "username" and "password" to the AWS service, and should be kept confidential.

The access keys MUST be specified, either via these environment variables, or via the --access-key and --secret-key command line parameters.

If the command line parameters are set, they override these environment variables.

CONFIGURATION FILE

The configuration options will be read from the file "~/.s3-tools" if it exists. The format is the same as the command line options with one option per line. For example, the file could contain:

    --access-key <AWS access key>
    --secret-key <AWS secret key>
    --secure

This example configuration file would specify the AWS access keys and that a secure connection using HTTPS should be used for all communications.

DESCRIPTION

Reads stdin, and writes it to an S3 item

BUGS

Report bugs to Mark Atwood mark@fallenpegasus.com.

Occasionally the S3 service will randomly fail for no externally apparent reason. When that happens, this tool should retry, with a delay and a backoff.

Access to the S3 service can be authenticated with a X.509 certificate, instead of via the "AWS Access Key Identifiers". This tool should support that.

It might be useful to be able to specify the "AWS Access Key Identifiers" in the user's "~/.netrc" file. This tool should support that.

Errors and warnings are very "Perl-ish", and can be confusing.

Trying to write to a bucket that does not exist or is not accessible by the user generates less than helpful error messages.

Trying to put a bucket instead of an item is silently skipped.

TODO

  option to read from files instead of stdin
  use the fs mtime to set the http Last-Modified
  option to read filenames to read from, from stdin
  option to read from a tar file stream, for multiple items
  option to magically guess mime type
  option to use extended file attributes for metadata
  option to have a progress bar

AUTHOR

Written by Mark Atwood mark@fallenpegasus.com.

Many thanks to Wotan LLC <http://wotanllc.com>, for supporting the development of these S3 tools.

Many thanks to the Amazon AWS engineers for developing S3.