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cURL Download and Upload Workflows/Create local directories

Create local directories automatically for output paths.

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Section: Downloads

Create local directories

bash
bash
curl --create-dirs -o downloads/reports/out.pdf https://example.com/report.pdf
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Handy when writing into nested destination paths.

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