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1*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker---
2*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerc: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al.
3*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerLong: skip-existing
5*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerHelp: Skip download if local file already exists
6*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerCategory: curl output
7*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerAdded: 8.10.0
8*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMulti: boolean
9*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSee-also:
10*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - output
11*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - remote-name
12*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - no-clobber
13*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerExample:
14*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - --skip-existing --output local/dir/file $URL
15*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker---
16*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
17*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker# `--skip-existing`
18*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
19*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerIf there is a local file present when a download is requested, the operation
20*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workeris skipped. Note that curl cannot know if the local file was previously
21*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerdownloaded fine, or if it is incomplete etc, it just knows if there is a
22*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfilename present in the file system or not and it skips the transfer if it is.
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