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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_APPEND (3)

Name

CURLOPT_APPEND - append to the remote file

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_APPEND, long append);

Description

CURLOPT_APPEND(3)          curl_easy_setopt options          CURLOPT_APPEND(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_APPEND - append to the remote file

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_APPEND, long append);

DESCRIPTION
       A  long  parameter  set  to 1 tells the library to append to the remote
       file instead of overwrite it. This is only useful when uploading to  an
       FTP site.

DEFAULT
       0 (disabled)

PROTOCOLS
       FTP

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {

         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/dir/to/newfile");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_APPEND, 1L);

         curl_easy_perform(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4

RETURN VALUE
       Returns  CURLE_OK  if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
       if not.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/curl         |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY(3), CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3),



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source      was      downloaded       from        https://curl.se/down-
       load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.



libcurl 7.83.1                 November 26, 2021             CURLOPT_APPEND(3)