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2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: create-dirs
5Help: Create necessary local directory hierarchy
6Category: output
7Added: 7.10.3
8Multi: boolean
9See-also:
10  - ftp-create-dirs
11  - output-dir
12Example:
13  - --create-dirs --output local/dir/file $URL
14---
15
16# `--create-dirs`
17
18When used in conjunction with the --output option, curl creates the necessary
19local directory hierarchy as needed. This option creates the directories
20mentioned with the --output option combined with the path possibly set with
21--output-dir. If the combined output filename uses no directory, or if the
22directories it mentions already exist, no directories are created.
23
24Created directories are made with mode 0750 on Unix-style file systems.
25
26To create remote directories when using FTP or SFTP, try --ftp-create-dirs.
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