Why is this gcloud compute copy-files producing an error message?

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Ross Manson picture Ross Manson · Sep 9, 2014 · Viewed 17.6k times · Source

When I execute the command

gcloud compute copy-files "C:\Users\fName lName\Desktop\testtext.txt" instancename:test.txt --zone europe-west1-a

I receive the error: "All sources must be local files when the destination is remote.".

Can anyone help me figure out what is wrong?

Answer

George picture George · Sep 9, 2014

In order to copy the file testtext.txt that you are specifying, you need to be in the path where that file is and specify its name while copying not the path.

Example: from your command line lets suppose you are in this path:

C:\Users\fName lName\Desktop\

Your command should be the following:

gcloud compute copy-files --zone europe-west1-b testtext.txt instancename:/PATH_where_you_want_the_file

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