| c: Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. |
| SPDX-License-Identifier: curl |
| Long: quote |
| Arg: <command> |
| Short: Q |
| Help: Send command(s) to server before transfer |
| Protocols: FTP SFTP |
| Category: ftp sftp |
| Example: --quote "DELE file" ftp://example.com/foo |
| Added: 5.3 |
| See-also: request |
| Multi: append |
| --- |
| Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP or SFTP server. Quote commands are |
| sent BEFORE the transfer takes place (just after the initial PWD command in an |
| FTP transfer, to be exact). To make commands take place after a successful |
| transfer, prefix them with a dash '-'. |
| |
| (FTP only) To make commands be sent after curl has changed the working |
| directory, just before the file transfer command(s), prefix the command with a |
| '+'. This is not performed when a directory listing is performed. |
| |
| You may specify any number of commands. |
| |
| By default curl will stop at first failure. To make curl continue even if the |
| command fails, prefix the command with an asterisk (*). Otherwise, if the |
| server returns failure for one of the commands, the entire operation will be |
| aborted. |
| |
| You must send syntactically correct FTP commands as RFC 959 defines to FTP |
| servers, or one of the commands listed below to SFTP servers. |
| |
| This option can be used multiple times. |
| |
| SFTP is a binary protocol. Unlike for FTP, curl interprets SFTP quote commands |
| itself before sending them to the server. File names may be quoted |
| shell-style to embed spaces or special characters. Following is the list of |
| all supported SFTP quote commands: |
| .RS |
| .IP "atime date file" |
| The atime command sets the last access time of the file named by the file |
| operand. The <date expression> can be all sorts of date strings, see the |
| *curl_getdate(3)* man page for date expression details. (Added in 7.73.0) |
| .IP "chgrp group file" |
| The chgrp command sets the group ID of the file named by the file operand to |
| the group ID specified by the group operand. The group operand is a decimal |
| integer group ID. |
| .IP "chmod mode file" |
| The chmod command modifies the file mode bits of the specified file. The |
| mode operand is an octal integer mode number. |
| .IP "chown user file" |
| The chown command sets the owner of the file named by the file operand to the |
| user ID specified by the user operand. The user operand is a decimal |
| integer user ID. |
| .IP "ln source_file target_file" |
| The ln and symlink commands create a symbolic link at the target_file location |
| pointing to the source_file location. |
| .IP "mkdir directory_name" |
| The mkdir command creates the directory named by the directory_name operand. |
| .IP "mtime date file" |
| The mtime command sets the last modification time of the file named by the |
| file operand. The <date expression> can be all sorts of date strings, see the |
| *curl_getdate(3)* man page for date expression details. (Added in 7.73.0) |
| .IP "pwd" |
| The pwd command returns the absolute pathname of the current working directory. |
| .IP "rename source target" |
| The rename command renames the file or directory named by the source |
| operand to the destination path named by the target operand. |
| .IP "rm file" |
| The rm command removes the file specified by the file operand. |
| .IP "rmdir directory" |
| The rmdir command removes the directory entry specified by the directory |
| operand, provided it is empty. |
| .IP "symlink source_file target_file" |
| See ln. |
| .RE |