ftp-delete.c

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#include <stdio.h>
 
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
/* <DESC>
 * Delete a single file from an FTP server.
 * </DESC>
 */
 
static size_t my_fwrite(void *buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream)
{
  (void)buffer;
  (void)stream;
  return size * nmemb;
}
 
 
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;
  struct curl_slist *headerlist = NULL;
 
  curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
 
  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, my_fwrite);
 
    /* 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);
 
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
 
    /* clean up the FTP commands list */
    curl_slist_free_all(headerlist);
 
    if(CURLE_OK != res) {
      /* we failed */
      fprintf(stderr, "curl told us %d\n", res);
    }
  }
 
  curl_global_cleanup();
 
  return 0;
}

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