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by IanCal 3579 days ago
It won't, but running

    pbpaste | sh -
Means it's taking whatever is in my clipboard and executing it.

I had replaced what I wanted to execute with just "pbpaste | sh -"

So it passed "pbpaste | sh -" to the sh to run. Which would have then taken "pbpaste | sh -" and passed it to sh to run, which ...