docs/documentation/advanced-features/remote-file/index.markdown
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title: Remote file task
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**Warning: `remote_file` is deprecated and was removed in Capistrano 3.7.0**
The `remote_file` task is allowing the existence of a remote file to be set as a prerequisite. These tasks can in turn depend on local files if required. In this implementation, the fact that we're dealing with a file in the shared path is assumed.
As an example, this task can be used to ensure that files to be linked exist
before running the check:linked_files task:
```ruby
namespace :deploy do
namespace :check do
task :linked_files => 'config/newrelic.yml'
end
end
remote_file 'config/newrelic.yml' => '/tmp/newrelic.yml', roles: :app
file '/tmp/newrelic.yml' do |t|
sh "curl -o #{t.name} https://rpm.newrelic.com/accounts/xx/newrelic.yml"
end
```