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Version: 8.0

DESTINATION - UFTP configuration option

Description​

The DESTINATION option specifies the complete path or single file name for the destination file.

DESTINATION is not required for any command.

DESTINATION is optional for the following commands:

For GET and PUT commands, DESTINATION can be used to specify the complete path or single file name for the destination file.

If DESTINATION identifies only a file name, the current directory is used for the destination host. If DESTINATION identifies only a directory, the file name specified in the SOURCE option is used.

For MGET and MPUT commands, DESTINATION cannot be used to specify a single file name for the destination file(s).

Usage​

Specification Method

Parameter / Value

IBM i

HP NonStop

UNIX

Windows

z/OS

Command Line, Short Form

n/a

Command Line, Long Form

-dst path

Environment Variable

n/a

Configuration File Keyword

n/a

Value​

path is the complete path or single file name for the destination file.

info

For UFTP running under Windows, a DESTINATION (or SOURCE) option value cannot start with / ( Windows XPS interprets this as the configuration option prefix: - ), but it can start with .