how to download a file using gsutil - powershell

Question

I'm starting to use gsutil on windows xp.I have Python 2.7 in c:\Python27. I have setup and can run Python scripts including gsutil in my Windows PowerShell ide succesfully to list my files. EG gsutil ls -L gs://mybucket shows my files present and correct. The developers guide suggests the following example to download a file from storage
gsutil cp gs://cats/*.jpg file://pets/
I dont understand the syntax here. I have a file in storage gs://pussy/debug.txt and I want to download it to c:\test\debug.txt
How should I write this command.
I tried
gsutil cp gs://pussy/debug.txt file c:\test\
but it gives me the following error
At line:1 char:7
+ gsutil <<<< cp gs://pussy/debug.txt file c:\test\
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Copying gs://pussy/debug.txt...:S
tring) [], RemoteException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\gsutil\gsutil.py", line 88, in <module>
sys.exit(gslib.__main__.main())
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\__main__.py", line 199, in main
parallel_operations)
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\__main__.py", line 287, in _RunNamedCommandAndHandleExc
eptions
parallel_operations)
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\command_runner.py", line 188, in RunNamedCommand
return command_inst.RunCommand()
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\commands\cp.py", line 2273, in RunCommand
shared_attrs)
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\command.py", line 803, in Apply
use_thr_exc_handler=ignore_subprocess_failures)
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\command.py", line 908, in _ApplyThreads
return_value = func(args)
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\commands\cp.py", line 2143, in _CopyFunc
self._PerformCopy(exp_src_uri, dst_uri))
File "c:\gsutil\gslib\commands\cp.py", line 1560, in _PerformCopy
src_key = src_uri.get_key(False, download_headers)
File "c:\gsutil\third_party\boto\boto\storage_uri.py", line 189, in get_key
key = bucket.get_key(self.object_name, headers, version_id)
File "c:\gsutil\third_party\boto\boto\file\bucket.py", line 92, in get_key
fp = open(key_name, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'file'
Can anyone help ?

Answer 1

The first command is assuming unix paths. You'll need to do the following to use it on windows:
gsutil cp gs://folder/filename c:\destfolder\file
OR
gsutil cp gs://folder/filename file:///c|/destfolder/file
Or possibly even
gsutil cp 'gs://folder/filename' 'file:///c|/destfolder/file'
Or with variables
$src = 'gs://folder/filename';
$dest = 'file:///c:/destfolder/file'
gsutil cp $src $dest

Answer 2

I've had the same issue.
They way I make it work is simple, do not include ":" they are not allow on this type of path.
For example try something like this:
python gsutil cp -r gs://pubsite_prod_rev_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/reviews/reviews_com.YYYYY.ZZZZ_201501.csv 'test/'
It will create a folder called test and save the file inside
Hope it helps.