---
title: "s3 copy recursive"
seo_description: "short snippet explaining how to upload folders recursivly to s3 from the cli"
date: 2022-03-03T21:39:59+01:00
draft: false
snippet_types:
- aws
- s3
---

Where were you **--recursive** when I was hacking around with
**for file * ; do aws s3 cp \$file.....**

```shell
$ aws s3 cp ./ s3://travisshears.images/image-service/images/oblastle/context/ --profile personal --recursive
upload: ./us-ak.jpg to s3://travisshears.images/image-service/images/oblastle/context/us-ak.jpg
upload: ./us-co.jpg to s3://travisshears.images/image-service/images/oblastle/context/us-co.jpg
upload: ./us-ar.jpg to s3://travisshears.images/image-service/images/oblastle/context/us-ar.jpg
upload: ./us-ca.jpg to s3://travisshears.images/image-service/images/oblastle/context/us-ca.jpg
upload: ./us-al.jpg to s3://travisshears.images/image-service/images/oblastle/context/us-al.jpg
upload: ./us-ct.jpg to s3://travisshears.images/image-service/images/oblastle/context/us-ct.jpg
...
```

**--recursive** is an easy win to upload a bunch of files to s3.