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| 2 | SPDX-License-Identifier: curl |
| 3 | Long: quote |
| 4 | Arg: <command> |
| 5 | Short: Q |
| 6 | Help: Send command(s) to server before transfer |
| 7 | Protocols: FTP SFTP |
| 8 | Category: ftp sftp |
| 9 | Example: --quote "DELE file" ftp://example.com/foo |
| 10 | Added: 5.3 |
| 11 | See-also: request |
| 12 | Multi: append |
| 13 | --- |
| 14 | Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP or SFTP server. Quote commands are |
| 15 | sent BEFORE the transfer takes place (just after the initial PWD command in an |
| 16 | FTP transfer, to be exact). To make commands take place after a successful |
| 17 | transfer, prefix them with a dash '-'. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | (FTP only) To make commands be sent after curl has changed the working |
| 20 | directory, just before the file transfer command(s), prefix the command with a |
| 21 | '+'. This is not performed when a directory listing is performed. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | You may specify any number of commands. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | By default curl will stop at first failure. To make curl continue even if the |
| 26 | command fails, prefix the command with an asterisk (*). Otherwise, if the |
| 27 | server returns failure for one of the commands, the entire operation will be |
| 28 | aborted. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | You must send syntactically correct FTP commands as RFC 959 defines to FTP |
| 31 | servers, or one of the commands listed below to SFTP servers. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | This option can be used multiple times. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | SFTP is a binary protocol. Unlike for FTP, curl interprets SFTP quote commands |
| 36 | itself before sending them to the server. File names may be quoted |
| 37 | shell-style to embed spaces or special characters. Following is the list of |
| 38 | all supported SFTP quote commands: |
| 39 | .RS |
| 40 | .IP "atime date file" |
| 41 | The atime command sets the last access time of the file named by the file |
| 42 | operand. The <date expression> can be all sorts of date strings, see the |
| 43 | *curl_getdate(3)* man page for date expression details. (Added in 7.73.0) |
| 44 | .IP "chgrp group file" |
| 45 | The chgrp command sets the group ID of the file named by the file operand to |
| 46 | the group ID specified by the group operand. The group operand is a decimal |
| 47 | integer group ID. |
| 48 | .IP "chmod mode file" |
| 49 | The chmod command modifies the file mode bits of the specified file. The |
| 50 | mode operand is an octal integer mode number. |
| 51 | .IP "chown user file" |
| 52 | The chown command sets the owner of the file named by the file operand to the |
| 53 | user ID specified by the user operand. The user operand is a decimal |
| 54 | integer user ID. |
| 55 | .IP "ln source_file target_file" |
| 56 | The ln and symlink commands create a symbolic link at the target_file location |
| 57 | pointing to the source_file location. |
| 58 | .IP "mkdir directory_name" |
| 59 | The mkdir command creates the directory named by the directory_name operand. |
| 60 | .IP "mtime date file" |
| 61 | The mtime command sets the last modification time of the file named by the |
| 62 | file operand. The <date expression> can be all sorts of date strings, see the |
| 63 | *curl_getdate(3)* man page for date expression details. (Added in 7.73.0) |
| 64 | .IP "pwd" |
| 65 | The pwd command returns the absolute pathname of the current working directory. |
| 66 | .IP "rename source target" |
| 67 | The rename command renames the file or directory named by the source |
| 68 | operand to the destination path named by the target operand. |
| 69 | .IP "rm file" |
| 70 | The rm command removes the file specified by the file operand. |
| 71 | .IP "rmdir directory" |
| 72 | The rmdir command removes the directory entry specified by the directory |
| 73 | operand, provided it is empty. |
| 74 | .IP "symlink source_file target_file" |
| 75 | See ln. |
| 76 | .RE |