curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_APPEND.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Title: CURLOPT_APPEND Section: 3 Source: libcurl See-also:

• CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY (3)
• CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM (3)
• CURLOPT_UPLOAD (3) Protocol:
• FTP
• SFTP Added-in: 7.17.0 ---

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%

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  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);
  }
}

HISTORY

This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

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