On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, balsamik1 wrote:

> I have just discovered that sending files over SFTP with curl can overwrite
> existing files on the remote server without any warning.

That goes the same for all protocols curl supports. You can easily shoot
yourself in the foot. Be careful.

> it will work each time simply overwriting the remote file regardless what
> file I use as the local file.

Would you have expected a note about this in the documentation or did you just
assume that it would warn you?

> Is there any way to prevent the accidental overwrite from happening?

Only if you script a first check for the remote file's existance and then do
the upload in a second command if's not there. We don't have any
"if-not-already-there-upload" option for curl.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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