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by lathiat 3293 days ago
As people tend to re-use shell commands, editing them as they go, I can totally see someone doing like curl XX | less and then curl XX | sh or something. If the download is relatively speedy.

You could argue this is one of the reasons less doesn't interpret control codes by default. As it would let applications hide stuff like that to redraw the screen.