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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: output-dir
5Arg: <dir>
6Help: Directory to save files in
7Added: 7.73.0
8Category: output
9Multi: single
10See-also:
11  - remote-name
12  - remote-header-name
13Example:
14  - --output-dir "tmp" -O $URL
15---
16
17# `--output-dir`
18
19Specify the directory in which files should be stored, when --remote-name or
20--output are used.
21
22The given output directory is used for all URLs and output options on the
23command line, up until the first --next.
24
25If the specified target directory does not exist, the operation fails unless
26--create-dirs is also used.
27