MinIO Commandline Parameters Cheatsheet

Title: MinIO Commandline Parameters Cheatsheet

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# MinIO Commandline Parameters Cheatsheet | by Rost Glukhov | Apr, 2026 | Medium

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MinIO provides two standard UIs: (1) MinIO Console — That’s a web UI, and (2) [MinIO Command — this is a commandline](https://www.glukhov.org/data-infrastructure/object-storage/minio-cheatsheet/) util `mc`.

Installation instructions are on MinIO website: [https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html#install-mc](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html#install-mc)


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## MinIO Command Line Cheatsheet

And here is a quick MinIO commands reference:

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**Basic Setup**

* Set an alias to a MinIO server:
* `mc alias set myminio http://localhost:9000`
* List buckets and direc