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@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ The available configuration options are listed below. All elements are required.
   machine. This value must be a writable location and any parent directories
   must already exist.
 
+* `direction` (string) - The direction of the file transfer. This defaults
+  to "upload." If it is set to "download" then the file "source" in
+  the machine wll be downloaded locally to "destination"
+
 ## Directory Uploads
 
 The file provisioner is also able to upload a complete directory to the