swift_command

tail -1. Get an X-Storage-Url and X-Auth-Token: 

$ curl -v -H 'X-Storage-User: test:tester' -H 'X-Storage-Pass: testing' http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/v1.0

This curl request will fetch you something like this :--

* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 8080 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
> GET /auth/v1.0 HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
> Accept: */*
> X-Storage-User: test:tester
> X-Storage-Pass: testing
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-Storage-Url: http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/AUTH_test
< X-Storage-Token: AUTH_tka26bd1be67784d8fb6e159fbe7a52d47
< X-Auth-Token: AUTH_tka26bd1be67784d8fb6e159fbe7a52d47
< Content-Length: 0
< Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:25:53 GMT
< 
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
* Closing connection #0


2. Using native swift command for the same 

$ swift stat

   Account: AUTH_test
Containers: 0
   Objects: 0
     Bytes: 0
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-Timestamp: 1363083810.18153

3. Upload an object
swift upload cats cat.jpg 

4. List an object

# swift list
cats

5. Download an object

# swift download cats cat.jpg
cat.jpg [headers 3.039s, total 3.537s, 0.021s MB/s]


Source : http://swiftstack.com/training/swift-install/