On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, JSZvD wrote:

> I've got a question about the --quote command in relation to ftp. When
> using it in the following line, it doesn't work:

> curl --proxy proxyserver:port --proxy-user username:password -O --verbose
> ftp://username:password@server-address/filename -Q "-delete filename"
>
> I'm runnin this command under Windows NT (4.0). When I use single quotes,
> the operation will be aborted. What am I doing wrong?

The --quote command must specify a full and detailed FTP command as described
in RFC959 or similar. There's no FTP command named 'delete'. To delete a file
from a FTP server you must use the DELE command and thus it should probably
be similar to:

        -Q "-DELE filename"

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