.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .\" .TH CURLOPT_APPEND 3 "November 04, 2020" "libcurl 7.74.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME CURLOPT_APPEND \- enable appending to the remote file .SH SYNOPSIS #include CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_APPEND, long append); .SH DESCRIPTION A long parameter set to 1 tells the library to append to the remote file instead of overwrite it. This is only useful when uploading to an FTP site. .SH DEFAULT 0 (disabled) .SH PROTOCOLS FTP .SH EXAMPLE .nf CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/dir/to/newfile"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_APPEND, 1L); curl_easy_perform(curl); } .fi .SH AVAILABILITY This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4 .SH RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY "(3), " CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM "(3), " .BR CURLOPT_UPLOAD "(3), "