CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS(3)

💅 CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS(3) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual — this one's a libcurl page, and it's genuinely so useful if you're the kind of girl who makes folders on a remote server. which, apparently, we are now. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS — literally the permissions for directories that get created remotely 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS,
                          long mode);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so you pass a long as the parameter, and that value is the permissions that get set on newly created directories on the remote server. 🫶

the default value is 0755, but ngl any valid value can be used. no gatekeeping here.

the only protocols that can use this are sftp://, scp://, and file://. that's the whole guest list, periodt. 👑

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✨ DEFAULT ✨

0755 — the blueprint, the standard, the main character default 💅

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✨ PROTOCOLS ✨

this functionality affects file, scp and sftp 🌸

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✨ EXAMPLE ✨

the way this little program just... does it. iconic. ✨

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);
  }
}

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✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

added in curl 7.16.4 — yes she's been around, she's a legacy icon 🧚

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

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

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK — slay, no notes. non-zero means an error occurred, so go check libcurl-errors(3) and figure out what went wrong. 😭

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS(3)
• CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS(3)
• CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3)

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💖 quick vibe check: this option is about directories, not files — if you're after file perms, that's CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS(3) right up there in SEE ALSO. iykyk. 🦋

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — stay hydrated, set your perms, and remember: remote directories deserve cute permissions too. 🍓

this has been libcurl, dated 2026-10-12 — mwah, catch you in the next manpage 💜🌈