[Reference feedback]: Release notes for version 2.68.0 do not inform about breaking change: removal of "az storage blob directory"

[bjosko96]

Type of issue

Missing information

Reference command name

az storage blob directory upload

Feedback

Hi! Starting today, when calling the az storage blob directory upload command in the AzureCLI inside Azure DevOps pipeline, we are getting the following error:

ERROR: 'directory' is misspelled or not recognized by the system.

The https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/storage/blob/directory says it is deprecated but not removed. Also the latest release notes published yesterday https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/release-notes-azure-cli#january-14-2025 do not mention any change to this command group ('storage blob directory' command group).

Can you help me to find out what is the reason of such error? Our guess is that this deprecated command group has been removed.
We are using StorageV2 blob storage account, not the "Data Lake Gen2". So an alternative command would be az storage blob upload-batch and not the az storage fs directory upload, correct?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/storage/blob/directory?view=azure-cli-latest

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs-cli/blob/main/latest/docs-ref-autogen/storage/blob/directory.yml

Author

@dbradish-microsoft

Document Id

43fb2b4e-3f87-f3b8-2e85-ed5812a69ffc

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[github-actions]

Here are some similar issues that might help you. Please check if they can solve your problem.

• az storage blob directory delete - deprecated #24024
• Unable to utilize the az storage blob directory list command #26968

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Possible solution (Extracted from existing issue, might be incorrect; please verify carefully)

az storage fs file list is indeed the correct command to use. az storage blob directory has been deprecated as shown.

Reference:

• Unable to utilize the az storage blob directory list command #26968 (comment)

[bjosko96]

I noticed this commits merged earlier today: Azure/azure-cli-extensions@45f28fe which seems to confirm our assumption that this command group has really been removed:)

[gabrielSoudry]

For those who want a temporary solution, I pin this version:

az extension add --name storage-preview --version 0.4.0
and it works 👍

[calvinhzy]

The az storage blob directory command group has been deprecated since late 2020, so we have decided to remove it from newer versions. h ttps://github.com/Azure/azure-cli-extensions/pull/2365
Using the command groups az storage blob and az storage fs directory should cover the same functionalities with newer features. Thanks.