ftp-delete.c
/*************************************************************************** * _ _ ____ _ * Project ___| | | | _ \| | * / __| | | | |_) | | * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| * * Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, 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. * * SPDX-License-Identifier: curl * ***************************************************************************/ /* <DESC> * Delete a single file from an FTP server. * </DESC> */ #include <stdio.h> #include <curl/curl.h> static size_t write_cb(char *buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream) { (void)buffer; (void)stream; return size * nmemb; } int main(void) { CURL *curl; CURLcode result; struct curl_slist *headerlist = NULL; result = curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL); if(result != CURLE_OK) return (int)result; curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { /* * You better replace the URL with one that works! */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://ftp.example.com/"); /* Define our callback to get called when there is data to be written */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_cb); /* Switch on full protocol/debug output */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L); /* build a list of commands to pass to libcurl */ headerlist = curl_slist_append(headerlist, "DELE file-to-remove"); /* pass in list of FTP commands to run after the transfer */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE, headerlist); result = curl_easy_perform(curl); /* always cleanup */ curl_easy_cleanup(curl); /* clean up the FTP commands list */ curl_slist_free_all(headerlist); if(result != CURLE_OK) { /* we failed */ fprintf(stderr, "curl told us %d\n", result); } } curl_global_cleanup(); return (int)result; }
Notice
This source code example is simplified and may ignore return
codes and error checks. We do this to highlight the libcurl function calls and
related options and reduce unrelated code.
A real-world application does of course properly check every return value and exit correctly at the first serious error.