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2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Short: C
5Long: continue-at
6Arg: <offset>
7Help: Resumed transfer offset
8Category: connection
9Added: 4.8
10Multi: single
11See-also:
12  - range
13Example:
14  - -C - $URL
15  - -C 400 $URL
16---
17
18# `--continue-at`
19
20Resume a previous transfer from the given byte offset. The given offset is the
21exact number of bytes that are skipped, counting from the beginning of the
22source file before it is transferred to the destination. If used with uploads,
23the FTP server command SIZE is not used by curl.
24
25Use "-C -" to instruct curl to automatically find out where/how to resume the
26transfer. It then uses the given output/input files to figure that out.
27