1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: skip-existing 5Help: Skip download if local file already exists 6Category: curl output 7Added: 8.10.0 8Multi: boolean 9See-also: 10 - output 11 - remote-name 12 - no-clobber 13Example: 14 - --skip-existing --output local/dir/file $URL 15--- 16 17# `--skip-existing` 18 19If there is a local file present when a download is requested, the operation 20is skipped. Note that curl cannot know if the local file was previously 21downloaded fine, or if it is incomplete etc, it just knows if there is a 22filename present in the file system or not and it skips the transfer if it is. 23