curl-curl/docs/cmdline-opts/skip-existing.md
Daniel Stenberg b4dba346cd
stop using the word 'just'
Everywhere. In documentation and code comments.

It is almost never a good word and almost always a filler that should be
avoided.

Closes #20793
2026-03-03 15:30:22 +01:00

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Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. curl skip-existing Skip download if local file already exists curl output 8.10.0 boolean
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remote-name
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--skip-existing --output local/dir/file $URL

--skip-existing

If there is a local file present when a download is requested, the operation is skipped. Note that curl cannot know if the local file was previously downloaded fine, or if it is incomplete etc, it knows if there is a filename present in the file system or not and it skips the transfer if it is.