The swift client is the command-line interface for the OpenStack Object Storage API. For help on a specific swift command, enter: $ swift help COMMAND $ swift COMMAND [options] [args] stat [container] [object] Displays information for the account, container, or object depending on the args given (if any). list [options] [container] Lists the containers for the account or the objects for a container. -p or --prefix is an option that will only list items beginning with that prefix. -l produces output formatted like 'ls -l' and --lh like 'ls -lh'. -d or --delimiter is option (for container listings only) that will roll up items with the given delimiter (see http://docs.openstack.org/ api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/list-objects.html) upload [options] container file_or_directory [file_or_directory] [...] Uploads to the given container the files and directories specified by the remaining args. -c or --changed is an option that will only upload files that have changed since the last upload. -S <size> or --segment-size <size> will upload the files in segments no larger than size. -C <container> or --segment-container <container> will specify the location of the segments to <container>. --leave-segments are options as well (see --help for more). post [options] [container] [object] Updates meta information for the account, container, or object depending on the args given. If the container is not found, it will be created automatically; but this is not true for accounts and objects. Containers also allow the -r (or --read-acl) and -w (or --write-acl) options. The -m or --meta option is allowed on all and used to define the user meta data items to set in the form Name:Value. This option can be repeated. Example: post -m Color:Blue -m Size:Large download --all OR download container [options] [object] [object] ... Downloads everything in the account (with --all), or everything in a container, or a list of objects depending on the args given. For a single object download, you may use the -o [--output] <filename> option to redirect the output to a specific file or if "-" then just redirect to stdout. delete [options] --all OR delete container [options] [object] [object] ... Deletes everything in the account (with --all), or everything in a container, or a list of objects depending on the args given. Segments of manifest objects will be deleted as well, unless you specify the --leave-segments option. $ swift -A https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0 -U user -K key stat $ swift --os-auth-url https://api.example.com/v2.0 --os-tenant-name tenant \ --os-usernameuser --os-password password list $ swift --os-auth-token 6ee5eb33efad4e45ab46806eac010566 \ --os-storage-url https://10.1.5.2:8080/v1/AUTH_ced809b6a4baea7aeab61a \ list $ swift list --lh