**Example 1: Listing all user owned buckets**
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. This date can change when making changes to your bucket, such as editing its bucket policy. 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
**Example 2: Listing all prefixes and objects in a bucket**
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
**Example 3: Listing all prefixes and objects in a specific bucket and prefix**
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
**Example 4: Recursively listing all prefixes and objects in a bucket**
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
**Example 5: Summarizing all prefixes and objects in a bucket**
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
**Example 6: Listing from an S3 access point**
The following ``ls`` command list objects from access point (``myaccesspoint``)::
aws s3 ls s3://arn:aws:s3:us-west-2:123456789012:accesspoint/myaccesspoint/
Output::
PRE somePrefix/
2013-07-25 17:06:27 88 test.txt