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## Write binary responses anywhere on disk

features

The `--output` and `--output-dir` flags no longer restrict downloads to the current working directory. Both now accept absolute paths and paths outside the directory the command runs in, instead of failing with "resolves to ... which is outside the current directory". `--output` still requires its parent directory to exist, and the CLI continues to refuse paths whose final component is a symlink.

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