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There are a number of download urls that are "one-time" use. Shouldn't this at least download the output to a /tmp file?



If you're relying on the previous behaviour of curl on your one-time URL, you're already in trouble, because it's been printed to a terminal and the real contents are probably irretrievable.


No. This would open an enormous can of worms, but I'll just pick one: security.

And if you're the kind of person that needs this, the solution is a one-line alias.




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