On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:55:28PM +0000, G. T. Stresen-Reuter wrote:
> I'm trying to use curl from within a bash script to delete a file via
> FTP. Here is a sample of the command I am using
>
> curl -v -u user:pass ftp://domain.com/httpdocs/samples/test.txt -Q "dele
> httpdocs/samples/test.txt" --ftp-method nocwd
>
> I was hoping the return value of the command would tell me whether or not
> the quoted DELE command succeeded or not. A return value of 0 would mean
> success while other values would mean some kind of error.

Try adding --head. That will skip the download and should do what you want.

>>> Dan

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