CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: November 04, 2020
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NAME

CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS - permissions for remotely created files

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long as a parameter, containing the value of the permissions that will be assigned to newly created files on the remote server. The default value is 0644, but any valid value can be used. The only protocols that can use this are sftp://, scp://, and file://.

DEFAULT

0644

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/file.txt");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS, 0664L);
  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.