{"id":268686,"date":"2026-06-09T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:30:24","slug":"proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton releases Proton Drive CLI for Windows, Mac, and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux\/\">Proton releases Proton Drive CLI for Windows, Mac, and Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 16:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.neowin.net\">www.neowin.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                    <span style=\"font-size:small;display:inline-block;margin-bottom: 10px;\">When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here\u2019s how it works.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-subtitle\">\n                             Proton has launched a cross-platform CLI for Drive, enabling terminal-based file management, automation, and encrypted cloud storage workflows.                        <\/h5>\n<p class=\"article-meta\">\n    <span class=\"author vcard\"><br \/>\n            David Uzondu<br \/>\n        <span class=\"role\"\/><br \/>\n        <span class=\"org\">Neowin<\/span><br \/>\n                \u00b7<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>    Jun 9, 2026 16:24 EDT<\/p>\n<p>The team at Proton has released a command-line interface for Proton Drive to let users manage their encrypted files directly from a terminal across all major platforms: Windows, macOS, and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The CLI supports the usual filesystem tasks like listing directories, moving files to the trash, downloading remote folders, handling invitations, and exporting these outputs with the<strong> &#8211;json<\/strong> flag to pass structured data directly into automated deployment scripts or run scheduled backups through cron.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some commands you can run with Proton Drive CLI:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>proton-drive auth login <\/strong>starts authentication through your browser.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>proton-drive filesystem upload .\/reports\/* \/my-files\/Reports &#8211;conflict-strategy skip <\/strong>uploads local documents while skipping files that already exist on the server.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>proton-drive sharing status \/my-files\/Reports<\/strong> checks the sharing status and permissions of a folder.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>proton-drive sharing invite &#8211;user [email\u00a0protected] &#8211;role editor &#8211;message &#8220;Please review reports&#8221; \/my-files\/Reports<\/strong> invites a collaborator to a shared folder with editor access and a custom message.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Proton said that in the future, the CLI will gain support for managing photos, sharing files and folders via secure public links, creating custom albums,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton releases Proton Drive CLI for Windows, Mac, and Linux https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/proton-releases-proton-drive-cli-for-windows-mac-and-linux\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-09 16:24:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.neowin.com\/news\/images\/uploaded\/2026\/06\/1781032205_proton-drive-cli_story.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-268686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268688,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268686\/revisions\/268688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}