does not create empty files with -o about curl

[bagder]

It certainly works like this on purpose, it is not a mistake. The documentation should probably be clarified to make this less surprising.

The idea is to not create a file in case of errors so it creates the file on demand when the first data arrives. But if no data ever arrives...

[joeyh]

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

It certainly works like this on purpose, it is not a mistake. The documentation
should probably be clarified to make this less surprising.

The idea is to not create a file in case of errors so it creates the file on
demand when the first data arrives. But if no data ever arrives...

Seems like you could create the file once the data transfer is complete,
if it's not been created already on demand. I think that would be better
than documenting a complicating special case.

see shy jo

[kdudka]

The current behavior sounds counter-intuitive to me, too. I would expect that successful download of a remote empty file results in a local empty file.

[bagder]

I wouldn't mind having it create the file if it ends successfully!

[bagder]

@joeyh feel like making a patch for it?

[kdudka]

I have proposed a patch for this on the mailing-list:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.library/45327/focus=45328

[kdudka]

I have merged the fix for this issue: a9e4674...992a731