1 Long: quote 2 Short: Q 3 Help: Send command(s) to server before transfer 4 Protocols: FTP SFTP 5 --- 6 7 Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP or SFTP server. Quote commands are 8 sent BEFORE the transfer takes place (just after the initial PWD command in an 9 FTP transfer, to be exact). To make commands take place after a successful 10 transfer, prefix them with a dash '-'. To make commands be sent after curl 11 has changed the working directory, just before the transfer command(s), prefix 12 the command with a '+' (this is only supported for FTP). You may specify any 13 number of commands. 14 15 If the server returns failure for one of the commands, the entire operation 16 will be aborted. You must send syntactically correct FTP commands as RFC 959 17 defines to FTP servers, or one of the commands listed below to SFTP servers. 18 19 Prefix the command with an asterisk (*) to make curl continue even if the 20 command fails as by default curl will stop at first failure. 21 22 This option can be used multiple times. 23 24 SFTP is a binary protocol. Unlike for FTP, curl interprets SFTP quote commands 25 itself before sending them to the server. File names may be quoted 26 shell-style to embed spaces or special characters. Following is the list of 27 all supported SFTP quote commands: 28 .RS 29 .IP "chgrp group file" 30 The chgrp command sets the group ID of the file named by the file operand to 31 the group ID specified by the group operand. The group operand is a decimal 32 integer group ID. 33 .IP "chmod mode file" 34 The chmod command modifies the file mode bits of the specified file. The 35 mode operand is an octal integer mode number. 36 .IP "chown user file" 37 The chown command sets the owner of the file named by the file operand to the 38 user ID specified by the user operand. The user operand is a decimal 39 integer user ID. 40 .IP "ln source_file target_file" 41 The ln and symlink commands create a symbolic link at the target_file location 42 pointing to the source_file location. 43 .IP "mkdir directory_name" 44 The mkdir command creates the directory named by the directory_name operand. 45 .IP "pwd" 46 The pwd command returns the absolute pathname of the current working directory. 47 .IP "rename source target" 48 The rename command renames the file or directory named by the source 49 operand to the destination path named by the target operand. 50 .IP "rm file" 51 The rm command removes the file specified by the file operand. 52 .IP "rmdir directory" 53 The rmdir command removes the directory entry specified by the directory 54 operand, provided it is empty. 55 .IP "symlink source_file target_file" 56 See ln. 57 .RE 58