/rclone

title: "rclone"
description: "Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends."
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> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/)

rclone

Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.

Synopsis

Rclone syncs files to and from cloud storage providers as well as mounting them, listing them in lots of different ways.

See the home page (https://rclone.org/) for installation, usage, documentation, changelog and configuration walkthroughs.

rclone [flags]

Options

      --alias-description string                            Description of the remote
      --alias-remote string                                 Remote or path to alias
      --archive-description string                          Description of the remote
      --archive-remote string                               Remote to wrap to read archives from
      --ask-password                                        Allow prompt for password for encrypted configuration (default true)
      --auto-confirm                                        If enabled, do not request console confirmation
      --azureblob-access-tier string                        Access tier of blob: hot, cool, cold or archive
      --azureblob-account string                            Azure Storage Account Name
      --azureblob-archive-tier-delete                       Delete archive tier blobs before overwriting
      --azureblob-chunk-size SizeSuffix                     Upload chunk size (default 4Mi)
      --azureblob-client-certificate-password string        Password for the certificate file (optional) (obscured)
      --azureblob-client-certificate-path string            Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key
      --azureblob-client-id string                          The ID of the client in use
      --azureblob-client-secret string                      One of the service principal's client secrets
      --azureblob-client-send-certificate-chain             Send the certificate chain when using certificate auth
      --azureblob-connection-string string                  Storage Connection String
      --azureblob-copy-concurrency int                      Concurrency for multipart copy (default 512)
      --azureblob-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                    Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 8Mi)
      --azureblob-delete-snapshots string                   Set to specify how to deal with snapshots on blob deletion
      --azureblob-description string                        Description of the remote
      --azureblob-directory-markers                         Upload an empty object with a trailing slash when a new directory is created
      --azureblob-disable-checksum                          Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
      --azureblob-disable-instance-discovery                Skip requesting Microsoft Entra instance metadata
      --azureblob-encoding Encoding                         The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8)
      --azureblob-endpoint string                           Endpoint for the service
      --azureblob-env-auth                                  Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI)
      --azureblob-key string                                Storage Account Shared Key
      --azureblob-list-chunk int                            Size of blob list (default 5000)
      --azureblob-msi-client-id string                      Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azureblob-msi-mi-res-id string                      Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azureblob-msi-object-id string                      Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azureblob-no-check-container                        If set, don't attempt to check the container exists or create it
      --azureblob-no-head-object                            If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects
      --azureblob-password string                           The user's password (obscured)
      --azureblob-public-access string                      Public access level of a container: blob or container
      --azureblob-sas-url string                            SAS URL for container level access only
      --azureblob-service-principal-file string             Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal
      --azureblob-tenant string                             ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID
      --azureblob-upload-concurrency int                    Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 16)
      --azureblob-upload-cutoff string                      Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256 MiB) (deprecated)
      --azureblob-use-az                                    Use Azure CLI tool az for authentication
      --azureblob-use-copy-blob                             Whether to use the Copy Blob API when copying to the same storage account (default true)
      --azureblob-use-emulator                              Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'
      --azureblob-use-msi                                   Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure)
      --azureblob-username string                           User name (usually an email address)
      --azurefiles-account string                           Azure Storage Account Name
      --azurefiles-chunk-size SizeSuffix                    Upload chunk size (default 4Mi)
      --azurefiles-client-certificate-password string       Password for the certificate file (optional) (obscured)
      --azurefiles-client-certificate-path string           Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key
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