diff --git a/fsconnectors/asyncio/s3.py b/fsconnectors/asyncio/s3.py
index 93d9e62..f65a957 100644
--- a/fsconnectors/asyncio/s3.py
+++ b/fsconnectors/asyncio/s3.py
@@ -200,4 +200,7 @@ async def upload_fileobj(
     @staticmethod
     def _split_path(path: str) -> list[str]:
         path = path.split('://')[-1]
-        return path.split('/', maxsplit=1)
+        parts = path.split('/', maxsplit=1)
+        if len(parts) == 1:
+            parts.append('')
+        return parts
diff --git a/fsconnectors/cli.py b/fsconnectors/cli.py
index 64988c6..d310d2e 100644
--- a/fsconnectors/cli.py
+++ b/fsconnectors/cli.py
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ async def download(
             Error files.
         """
         s3_path, local_path = self._prepare_paths(s3_path, local_path)
+        print(s3_path, local_path)
         async with self.local_connector.connect() as lc:
             async with self.s3_connector.connect() as sc:
                 files = await sc.scandir(s3_path, recursive=True)
@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ async def _download_file(
     def _prepare_paths(s3_path: str, local_path: str) -> tuple[str, str]:
         if platform.system() == 'Windows':
             local_path = re.sub(r'\\+', '/', local_path)
-        s3_path = s3_path.rstrip('/')
+        s3_path = s3_path.split('://')[-1].rstrip('/')
         local_path = local_path.rstrip('/')
         return s3_path, local_path
 
diff --git a/fsconnectors/s3.py b/fsconnectors/s3.py
index fb1daad..4c0bfbc 100644
--- a/fsconnectors/s3.py
+++ b/fsconnectors/s3.py
@@ -194,4 +194,7 @@ def _get_client(self) -> Any:
     @staticmethod
     def _split_path(path: str) -> list[str]:
         path = path.split('://')[-1]
-        return path.split('/', maxsplit=1)
+        parts = path.split('/', maxsplit=1)
+        if len(parts) == 1:
+            parts.append('')
+        return parts