CURL command line tool - Delete File from FTP server

Problem solved! The dash before DELE should not be there:

curl -v -u username:pwd ftp://host/FileTodelete.xml -Q "DELE FileTodelete.xml"

You place a command with -Q, but -DELE file is not a common ftp command. Try one of these instead:

curl -v -u username:pwd ftp://host/FileTodelete.xml -Q 'DELE FileTodelete.xml'curl -v -u username:pwd ftp://host/FileTodelete.xml -Q 'DELETE FileTodelete.xml'curl -v -u username:pwd ftp://host/FileTodelete.xml -Q 'rm FileTodelete.xml'

I accomplished this task by first logging into my FTP server then typing "?" at the command line to get a list of commands recognized by my FTP server. The command recognized by my server was "delete".

So, -Q"delete $fileToRemove" $serverURL

I was also able to get it to work by using -X"DELE $fileToRemove" $serverURL. However, I kept getting rc=19 (because I think the "-X" option mostly applies to HTTP|HTTPS?) from curl when I used this argument even though the file was successfully deleted.

Not sure if other FTP servers recognize different commands but this is what worked for me.