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On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Ultima wrote:

> Curl is probably the correct utility for this job. With curl the cat and rm
> command can be negated entirely, although I'm not sure it has the same
> option set if explicitly required. Just stdout to the desired file. If a
> fresh list each use of the command is needed, add an rm before the for.

The FreeBSD native command is fetch(1).