How can I use wildcards to `cp` a group of files with the AWS CLI

Question

I'm having trouble using * in the AWS CLI to select a subset of files from a certain bucket. Adding * to the path like this does not seem to work aws s3 cp s3://data/2016-08*. Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

Downloading multiple files to your current directory from an aws bucket can be done by using recursive, exclude, and include flags like this: aws s3 cp s3://data/ . --recursive --exclude "*" --include "*.filetype" Where "filetype" is the extension, such as .jpg. This below statement will exclude all files except that file type: --exclude "*" --include "*.filetype" This below statement will exclude all the files so keep do not do this --include "*.txt" --exclude "*" For more information, check out this document from Amazon - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/#use-of-exclude-and-include-filters