Azcopy list on subfolder

[brentmjohnson]

Which version of the AzCopy was used?

Note: The version is visible when running AzCopy without any argument

AzCopy 10.12.1

Which platform are you using? (ex: Windows, Mac, Linux)

Linux

What command did you run?

Note: Please remove the SAS to avoid exposing your credentials. If you cannot remember the exact command, please retrieve it from the beginning of the log file.

./azcopy list https://{STORAGE ACCOUNT}.blob.core.windows.net/{BLOB CONTAINER}/{SUBFOLDER}/
Note: executed using AAD OAUTH authentication

What problem was encountered?

Command returns blobs from all subfolders

How can we reproduce the problem in the simplest way?

Execute the above command on a blob container with subfolders

Have you found a mitigation/solution?

List everything in the container then filter client-side but this is very time consuming for containers with a lot of subfolders

This appears to have been addressed previously in #583? Maybe there was a reversion.

[adreed-msft]

To be clear; you want a --recursive=false option for list?

[brentmjohnson]

To be clear; you want a --recursive=false option for list?

This was actually a bug report because it didn't seem like #583 was working anymore, but it looks like I was wrong.

My issue in this case had to do with the container name: $web AzCopy doesn't seem to be URL encoding the remote source / destination args. As soon as I replaced $web with %24web the list command did exactly what I expected - list all blobs under the specified subfolder path recursively.

The URL encoding handling of "$" in remote source / destination args may be a separate issue. For reference, the generated SAS token URL for the $web container does not URL encode the "$"

[marc-hb]

To be clear; you want a --recursive=false option for list?

I don't know about @brentmjohnson but I certainly do, otherwise the list command becomes totally unusable for top level folders. Is there already a request filed about this? I didn't find it yet.

EDIT, found it now:

• azcopy list - show only top level directories #858

Somewhat related:

• The "ls" command does not honor trailing wildcard, while other commands such as "cp" do #1853

[seanmcc-msft]

Unfortunately, we are not going to add this functionality. We are focused on documentation, testing, and quality, and this feature would represent a large increase in scope for the product.