diff --git a/bin/cget.sh b/bin/cget.sh
index ae34936..a30d344 100755
--- a/bin/cget.sh
+++ b/bin/cget.sh
@@ -201,6 +201,14 @@ location="$1"
 # Initialization
 #######################################################################
 
+# determine the log file
+if $quiet_mode; then
+	log_file=/dev/null
+else
+	log_file="$CACHE_DIR/cget_log.txt"
+	local_opts="$local_opts -L $log_file"
+fi
+
 # create temporary subdirectory
 /bin/mkdir "$tmp_dir"
 status_code=$?
@@ -208,45 +216,36 @@ if [ $status_code -ne 0 ]; then
 	echo "ERROR: $script_name failed to create tmp dir ($status_code) $tmp_dir" >&2
 	exit 2
 fi
+$verbose_mode && print_log_message "$script_name creating temp dir: $tmp_dir" "$log_file"
 
 # temporary file
 tmp_file="${tmp_dir}/http_resource_$$"
 
-# determine the log file
-if $quiet_mode; then
-	log_file=/dev/null
-else
-	log_file="$CACHE_DIR/cget_log.txt"
-	local_opts="$local_opts -L $log_file"
-fi
-
 #######################################################################
 # Main processing
 #######################################################################
 
-# The print_log_message function is defined in core_lib.sh
+# Functions print_log_message and clean_up_and_exit defined in core_lib.sh
+# Function conditional_get defined in http_tools.sh
+
 print_log_message "$script_name requesting resource: $location" "$log_file"
 
-# The conditional_get function is defined in http_tools.sh
+# get the resource
 conditional_get $local_opts -d "$CACHE_DIR" -T "$tmp_dir" "$location" > "$tmp_file"
 status_code=$?
 if [ $status_code -ne 0 ]; then
-	# clean up and exit
-	/bin/rm -r "$tmp_dir"
 	if [ $status_code -gt 1 ]; then
-		echo "ERROR: $script_name failed to get resource: $location" >&2
+		echo "ERROR: $script_name failed to get resource ($status_code): $location" >&2
 	fi
-	exit $status_code
+	clean_up_and_exit -d "$tmp_dir" $status_code
 fi
 
 # output the resource
 /bin/cat "$tmp_file"
 status_code=$?
-# clean up and exit
-/bin/rm -r "$tmp_dir"
 if [ $status_code -ne 0 ]; then
 	echo "ERROR: $script_name unable to cat output ($status_code)" >&2
-	exit 3
+	clean_up_and_exit -d "$tmp_dir" 3
 fi
 
 exit 0