The following ``ls`` command lists all of the bucket owned by the user. In this example, the user owns the buckets ``mybucket`` and ``mybucket2``. The timestamp is the date the bucket was created, shown in your machine's time zone. Note if ``s3://`` is used for the path argument ``<S3Uri>``, it will list all of the buckets as well:: aws s3 ls Output:: 2013-07-11 17:08:50 mybucket 2013-07-24 14:55:44 mybucket2 The following ``ls`` command lists objects and common prefixes under a specified bucket and prefix. In this example, the user owns the bucket ``mybucket`` with the objects ``test.txt`` and ``somePrefix/test.txt``. The ``LastWriteTime`` and ``Length`` are arbitrary. Note that since the ``ls`` command has no interaction with the local filesystem, the ``s3://`` URI scheme is not required to resolve ambiguity and may be omitted:: aws s3 ls s3://mybucket Output:: PRE somePrefix/ 2013-07-25 17:06:27 88 test.txt The following ``ls`` command lists objects and common prefixes under a specified bucket and prefix. However, there are no objects nor common prefixes under the specified bucket and prefix:: aws s3 ls s3://mybucket/noExistPrefix Output:: None The following ``ls`` command will recursively list objects in a bucket. Rather than showing ``PRE dirname/`` in the output, all the content in a bucket will be listed in order:: aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --recursive Output:: 2013-09-02 21:37:53 10 a.txt 2013-09-02 21:37:53 2863288 foo.zip 2013-09-02 21:32:57 23 foo/bar/.baz/a 2013-09-02 21:32:58 41 foo/bar/.baz/b 2013-09-02 21:32:57 281 foo/bar/.baz/c 2013-09-02 21:32:57 73 foo/bar/.baz/d 2013-09-02 21:32:57 452 foo/bar/.baz/e 2013-09-02 21:32:57 896 foo/bar/.baz/hooks/bar 2013-09-02 21:32:57 189 foo/bar/.baz/hooks/foo 2013-09-02 21:32:57 398 z.txt The following ``ls`` command demonstrates the same command using the --human-readable and --summarize options. --human-readable displays file size in Bytes/MiB/KiB/GiB/TiB/PiB/EiB. --summarize displays the total number of objects and total size at the end of the result listing:: aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --recursive --human-readable --summarize Output:: 2013-09-02 21:37:53 10 Bytes a.txt 2013-09-02 21:37:53 2.9 MiB foo.zip 2013-09-02 21:32:57 23 Bytes foo/bar/.baz/a 2013-09-02 21:32:58 41 Bytes foo/bar/.baz/b 2013-09-02 21:32:57 281 Bytes foo/bar/.baz/c 2013-09-02 21:32:57 73 Bytes foo/bar/.baz/d 2013-09-02 21:32:57 452 Bytes foo/bar/.baz/e 2013-09-02 21:32:57 896 Bytes foo/bar/.baz/hooks/bar 2013-09-02 21:32:57 189 Bytes foo/bar/.baz/hooks/foo 2013-09-02 21:32:57 398 Bytes z.txt Total Objects: 10 Total Size: 2.9 MiB