In OpenStack Swift, object storage can simulate a hierarchical directory structure in containers by including a / (forward slash) character in the object's name.

Let's upload a file (AMERICA/USA/Newyork.txt) to the Continent container using the following command:

# swift upload Continent AMERICA/USA/Newyork.txt

Now let's list the Continent container, which has a few pseudo-hierarchical folders, using the following commands:

# swift list Continent
AMERICA/USA/Newyork.txt
ASIA/ASIA.txt
ASIA/China/China.txt
ASIA/INDIA/India.txt
Australia/Australia.txt
continent.txt

We can use / as the delimiter parameter to limit the displayed results. We can also use the prefix parameter along with the delimiter parameter to view the objects in the pseudo-directory along with the pseudo-directories within it. The following are a couple of examples showing the use of these parameters:

# swift list Continent --delimiter /
AMERICA/
ASIA/
Australia/
continent.txt

# swift list...