quote.md (3170B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Long: quote 5 Arg: <command> 6 Short: Q 7 Help: Send command(s) to server before transfer 8 Protocols: FTP SFTP 9 Category: ftp sftp 10 Added: 5.3 11 Multi: append 12 See-also: 13 - request 14 Example: 15 - --quote "DELE file" ftp://example.com/foo 16 --- 17 18 # `--quote` 19 20 Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP or SFTP server. Quote commands are 21 sent BEFORE the transfer takes place (just after the initial **PWD** command 22 in an FTP transfer, to be exact). To make commands take place after a 23 successful transfer, prefix them with a dash '-'. 24 25 (FTP only) To make commands be sent after curl has changed the working 26 directory, just before the file transfer command(s), prefix the command with a 27 '+'. 28 29 You may specify any number of commands. 30 31 By default curl stops at first failure. To make curl continue even if the 32 command fails, prefix the command with an asterisk (*). Otherwise, if the 33 server returns failure for one of the commands, the entire operation is 34 aborted. 35 36 You must send syntactically correct FTP commands as RFC 959 defines to FTP 37 servers, or one of the commands listed below to SFTP servers. 38 39 SFTP is a binary protocol. Unlike for FTP, curl interprets SFTP quote commands 40 itself before sending them to the server. Filenames may be quoted shell-style 41 to embed spaces or special characters. Following is the list of all supported 42 SFTP quote commands: 43 44 ## atime date file 45 The atime command sets the last access time of the file named by the file 46 operand. The date expression can be all sorts of date strings, see the 47 *curl_getdate(3)* man page for date expression details. (Added in 7.73.0) 48 49 ## chgrp group file 50 The chgrp command sets the group ID of the file named by the file operand to 51 the group ID specified by the group operand. The group operand is a decimal 52 integer group ID. 53 54 ## chmod mode file 55 The chmod command modifies the file mode bits of the specified file. The 56 mode operand is an octal integer mode number. 57 58 ## chown user file 59 The chown command sets the owner of the file named by the file operand to the 60 user ID specified by the user operand. The user operand is a decimal 61 integer user ID. 62 63 ## ln source_file target_file 64 The ln and symlink commands create a symbolic link at the target_file location 65 pointing to the source_file location. 66 67 ## mkdir directory_name 68 The mkdir command creates the directory named by the directory_name operand. 69 70 ## mtime date file 71 The mtime command sets the last modification time of the file named by the 72 file operand. The date expression can be all sorts of date strings, see the 73 *curl_getdate(3)* man page for date expression details. (Added in 7.73.0) 74 75 ## pwd 76 The pwd command returns the absolute path name of the current working directory. 77 78 ## rename source target 79 The rename command renames the file or directory named by the source 80 operand to the destination path named by the target operand. 81 82 ## rm file 83 The rm command removes the file specified by the file operand. 84 85 ## rmdir directory 86 The rmdir command removes the directory entry specified by the directory 87 operand, provided it is empty. 88 89 ## symlink source_file target_file 90 See ln.