CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: May 31, 2017
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NAME

CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS - permissions for remotely created directories  

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS,
                          long mode);

 

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long as a parameter, containing the value of the permissions that will be assigned to newly created directories on the remote server. The default value is 0755, but any valid value can be used. The only protocols that can use this are sftp://, scp://, and file://.  

DEFAULT

0755  

PROTOCOLS

SFTP, SCP and FILE  

EXAMPLE

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  CURLcode ret;
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://upload.example.com/newdir/file.zip");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS, 0644L);
  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

 

AVAILABILITY

Added in 7.16.4  

RETURN VALUE

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

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3),

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SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

DEFAULT

PROTOCOLS

EXAMPLE

AVAILABILITY

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