1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: max-filesize 5Arg: <bytes> 6Help: Maximum file size to download 7Protocols: FTP HTTP MQTT 8Category: connection 9Added: 7.10.8 10Multi: single 11See-also: 12 - limit-rate 13Example: 14 - --max-filesize 100K $URL 15--- 16 17# `--max-filesize` 18 19Specify the maximum size (in bytes) of a file to download. If the file 20requested is larger than this value, the transfer does not start and curl 21returns with exit code 63. 22 23A size modifier may be used. For example, Appending 'k' or 'K' counts the 24number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it 25gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. (Added in 7.58.0) 26 27**NOTE**: before curl 8.4.0, when the file size is not known prior to 28download, for such files this option has no effect even if the file transfer 29ends up being larger than this given limit. 30 31Starting with curl 8.4.0, this option aborts the transfer if it reaches the 32threshold during transfer. 33
