Why is this gcloud compute copy-files producing an error message?

Question

When I execute the command

gcloud compute copy-files \"C:\\Users\\fName lName\\Desktop\\testtext.txt\" instancename:test.txt --zone europe-west1-a

Answer 1

For example, to copy a remote directory to your local host, run:

   gcloud compute copy-files \
      my-instance:~/remote-dir \
      ~/local-dir \
      --zone us-central1-a

In the above example, “/remote-dir” from “my-instance” is copied into the “/local-dir” directory. Conversely, files from your local computer can be copied to a virtual machine:

gcloud compute copy-files \
    ~/my-local-file-1 \
    ~/my-local-file-2 \
    my-instance:~/remote-destination \
    --zone us-central1-a

Here's a real live example for you:

Copy a remote file directory to your local host, run:

gcloud compute copy-files \
      instance-4:~/ \
      ~/Desktop/project/scripts/step/folder/* \
      --zone asia-east1-a \
      --project 911911911911911 \

All files from your local computer can be copied to a virtual machine:

gcloud compute copy-files \
    ~/Desktop/project/scripts/step/folder/* \
    instance-3:~/ \
    --zone asia-east1-a \
    --project 911911911911911 \