--- title: "rclone" description: "Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends." slug: rclone url: /commands/rclone/ # autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs" --- # 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 ``` -h, --help help for rclone ``` See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here. ## SEE ALSO * [rclone about](/commands/rclone_about/) - Get quota information from the remote. * [rclone authorize](/commands/rclone_authorize/) - Remote authorization. * [rclone backend](/commands/rclone_backend/) - Run a backend-specific command. * [rclone bisync](/commands/rclone_bisync/) - Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths. * [rclone cat](/commands/rclone_cat/) - Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout. * [rclone check](/commands/rclone_check/) - Checks the files in the source and destination match. * [rclone checksum](/commands/rclone_checksum/) - Checks the files in the source against a SUM file. * [rclone cleanup](/commands/rclone_cleanup/) - Clean up the remote if possible. * [rclone completion](/commands/rclone_completion/) - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell * [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config/) - Enter an interactive configuration session. * [rclone copy](/commands/rclone_copy/) - Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files. * [rclone copyto](/commands/rclone_copyto/) - Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files. * [rclone copyurl](/commands/rclone_copyurl/) - Copy url content to dest. * [rclone cryptcheck](/commands/rclone_cryptcheck/) - Cryptcheck checks the integrity of a crypted remote. * [rclone cryptdecode](/commands/rclone_cryptdecode/) - Cryptdecode returns unencrypted file names. * [rclone dedupe](/commands/rclone_dedupe/) - Interactively find duplicate filenames and delete/rename them. * [rclone delete](/commands/rclone_delete/) - Remove the files in path. * [rclone deletefile](/commands/rclone_deletefile/) - Remove a single file from remote. * [rclone genautocomplete](/commands/rclone_genautocomplete/) - Output completion script for a given shell. * [rclone gendocs](/commands/rclone_gendocs/) - Output markdown docs for rclone to the directory supplied. * [rclone hashsum](/commands/rclone_hashsum/) - Produces a hashsum file for all the objects in the path. * [rclone link](/commands/rclone_link/) - Generate public link to file/folder. * [rclone listremotes](/commands/rclone_listremotes/) - List all the remotes in the config file. * [rclone ls](/commands/rclone_ls/) - List the objects in the path with size and path. * [rclone lsd](/commands/rclone_lsd/) - List all directories/containers/buckets in the path. * [rclone lsf](/commands/rclone_lsf/) - List directories and objects in remote:path formatted for parsing. * [rclone lsjson](/commands/rclone_lsjson/) - List directories and objects in the path in JSON format. * [rclone lsl](/commands/rclone_lsl/) - List the objects in path with modification time, size and path. * [rclone md5sum](/commands/rclone_md5sum/) - Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path. * [rclone mkdir](/commands/rclone_mkdir/) - Make the path if it doesn't already exist. * [rclone mount](/commands/rclone_mount/) - Mount the remote as file system on a mountpoint. * [rclone move](/commands/rclone_move/) - Move files from source to dest. * [rclone moveto](/commands/rclone_moveto/) - Move file or directory from source to dest. * [rclone ncdu](/commands/rclone_ncdu/) - Explore a remote with a text based user interface. * [rclone obscure](/commands/rclone_obscure/) - Obscure password for use in the rclone config file. * [rclone purge](/commands/rclone_purge/) - Remove the path and all of its contents. * [rclone rc](/commands/rclone_rc/) - Run a command against a running rclone. * [rclone rcat](/commands/rclone_rcat/) - Copies standard input to file on remote. * [rclone rcd](/commands/rclone_rcd/) - Run rclone listening to remote control commands only. * [rclone rmdir](/commands/rclone_rmdir/) - Remove the empty directory at path. * [rclone rmdirs](/commands/rclone_rmdirs/) - Remove empty directories under the path. * [rclone selfupdate](/commands/rclone_selfupdate/) - Update the rclone binary. * [rclone serve](/commands/rclone_serve/) - Serve a remote over a protocol. * [rclone settier](/commands/rclone_settier/) - Changes storage class/tier of objects in remote. * [rclone sha1sum](/commands/rclone_sha1sum/) - Produces an sha1sum file for all the objects in the path. * [rclone size](/commands/rclone_size/) - Prints the total size and number of objects in remote:path. * [rclone sync](/commands/rclone_sync/) - Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only. * [rclone test](/commands/rclone_test/) - Run a test command * [rclone touch](/commands/rclone_touch/) - Create new file or change file modification time. * [rclone tree](/commands/rclone_tree/) - List the contents of the remote in a tree like fashion. * [rclone version](/commands/rclone_version/) - Show the version number.