The swift client is the command-line interface for the OpenStack Object Storage API.
For help on a specific swift command, enter:
$ swift help COMMANDExample A.16. Usage
swift [--version] [--help] [--snet] [--verbose]
[--debug] [--quiet] [--auth <auth_url>]
[--auth-version <auth_version>] [--user <username>]
[--key <api_key>] [--retries <num_retries>]
[--os-username <auth-user-name>] [--os-password <auth-password>]
[--os-tenant-name <auth-tenant-name>]
[--os-tenant-id <auth-tenant-id>]
[--os-auth-url <auth-url>] [--os-auth-token <auth-token>]
[--os-storage-url <storage-url>] [--os-region-name <region-name>]
[--os-service-type <service-type>]
[--os-endpoint-type <endpoint-type>]
[--os-cacert <ca-certificate>] [--insecure]
[--no-ssl-compression]
<subcommand> ... Example A.17. Commands
<subcommand>
delete Delete a container or objects within a container
download Download objects from containers
list Lists the containers for the account or the objects
for a container
post Updates meta information for the account, container,
or object
stat Displays information for the account, container,
or object
upload Uploads files or directories to the given container
Example A.18. Examples
$ 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
