How can I tell how many objects I've stored in an S3 bucket?

Question

Unless I\'m missing something, it seems that none of the APIs I\'ve looked at will tell you how many objects are in an /. Is ther

Answer 1

If you use the s3cmd command-line tool, you can get a recursive listing of a particular bucket, outputting it to a text file.

s3cmd ls -r s3://logs.mybucket/subfolder/ > listing.txt

Then in linux you can run a wc -l on the file to count the lines (1 line per object).

wc -l listing.txt