How to manage Google drive from command line.

There is one tool Gdrive which can be used for managing the Google drive from command line.

The binary for this command is available in the link "https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/releases".

Move the binary to any of the default binary location once downloaded.

#mv drive /usr/local/bin

Now the command is ready for use and its possible to manage, upload, download, delete and share files on Google Drive from terminal.

All the options and syntax details can be get from the command help.

#gdrive help

gdrive usage:

gdrive [global] list [options]                                 List files
gdrive [global] download [options] <fileId>                    Download file or directory
gdrive [global] download query [options] <query>               Download all files and directories matching query
gdrive [global] upload [options] <path>                        Upload file or directory
gdrive [global] upload - [options] <name>                      Upload file from stdin
gdrive [global] update [options] <fileId> <path>               Update file, this creates a new revision of the file
gdrive [global] info [options] <fileId>                        Show file info
gdrive [global] mkdir [options] <name>                         Create directory
gdrive [global] share [options] <fileId>                       Share file or directory
gdrive [global] share list <fileId>                            List files permissions
gdrive [global] share revoke <fileId> <permissionId>           Revoke permission
gdrive [global] delete [options] <fileId>                      Delete file or directory
gdrive [global] sync list [options]                            List all syncable directories on drive
gdrive [global] sync content [options] <fileId>                List content of syncable directory
gdrive [global] sync download [options] <fileId> <path>        Sync drive directory to local directory
gdrive [global] sync upload [options] <path> <fileId>          Sync local directory to drive
gdrive [global] changes [options]                              List file changes
gdrive [global] revision list [options] <fileId>               List file revisions
gdrive [global] revision download [options] <fileId> <revId>   Download revision
gdrive [global] revision delete <fileId> <revId>               Delete file revision
gdrive [global] import [options] <path>                        Upload and convert file to a google document, see 'about import' for available conversions
gdrive [global] export [options] <fileId>                      Export a google document
gdrive [global] about [options]                                Google drive metadata, quota usage
gdrive [global] about import                                   Show supported import formats
gdrive [global] about export                                   Show supported export formats
gdrive version                                                 Print application version
gdrive help                                                    Print help
gdrive help <command>                                          Print command help
gdrive help <command> <subcommand>                             Print subcommand help

That's all…