curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS.md

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

• CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS (3)
• CURLOPT_UPLOAD (3) Protocol:
• SFTP
• SCP
• FILE Added-in: 7.16.4 ---

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 are set on newly created files on the remote server. The default value is 0644. The only protocols that can use this are sftp://, scp://, and file://.

DEFAULT

0644

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  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%

RETURN VALUE

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