CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS(3)

CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS3

Permissions for remotely created directories

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS,
                          long mode);

Overview

Pass a long as a parameter, containing the value of the permissions that is set on newly created directories on the remote server. The default value is 0755, but any valid value can be used. The only protocols that can use this are sftp://, scp://, and file://.

Default

0755

Protocols

This functionality affects file, scp and sftp

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
                     "sftp://upload.example.com/newdir/file.zip");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS, 0644L);
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

Return value

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 7.16.4

From curl 8.23.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.