Activity for Stephen Kitt
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| Edit | Post #292228 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Is it a bad idea to pipe a script from curl to your shell? I won’t repeat the points mentioned in Ordoviz’s answer, but there’s another important aspect which is often forgotten: when you pipe a script to a shell (or pass it as an argument to `-c`), whatever is downloaded will be executed, even if the download is incomplete. This can lead to frustration,... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |