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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLOPT_APPEND
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY (3)
9  - CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM (3)
10  - CURLOPT_UPLOAD (3)
11Protocol:
12  - FTP
13---
14
15# NAME
16
17CURLOPT_APPEND - append to the remote file
18
19# SYNOPSIS
20
21~~~c
22#include <curl/curl.h>
23
24CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_APPEND, long append);
25~~~
26
27# DESCRIPTION
28
29A long parameter set to 1 tells the library to append to the remote file
30instead of overwrite it. This is only useful when uploading to an FTP site.
31
32# DEFAULT
33
340 (disabled)
35
36# EXAMPLE
37
38~~~c
39int main(void)
40{
41  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
42  if(curl) {
43
44    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/dir/to/newfile");
45    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
46    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_APPEND, 1L);
47
48    curl_easy_perform(curl);
49  }
50}
51~~~
52
53# AVAILABILITY
54
55This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4
56
57# RETURN VALUE
58
59Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
60