Rclone for Data Transfer - Google Drive

Rclone website is a tool for data transfer to and from a variety of sources including your local machine. A few commands for interacting with Google Drive and transferring data to and from a local machine is shown below.

Use the following to setup your remote for Google gdrive

rclone config

To list remotes

rclone listremotes

remote_google:

To list the directories in this drive

rclone lsd remote_google:

To list all the files

rclone ls remote_google:

To list usage statistics

rclone about remote_google:

Used:    45.899G
Trashed: 475.183M
Other:   8.305G

To copy a file or a folder from the remote drive to your local folder with verbose output (-v)

rclone copy remote_google:FOLDER LOCAL_FOLDER/

To copy all files that match a certain extension use

rclone -v copy --include *.{docx} remote_google: LOCAL_FOLDER