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