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by stephenr 2612 days ago
It’s a fucking terrible pattern that gets used by a whole heap of tools.

https://curlpipesh.tumblr.com/

The ridiculous ones are where it just sets up an apt repo - like someone can’t add a file with a line or two of text and run two very common commands (apt update/install).

Edit: these ones are just ridiculous.

“Here, download this stuff using curl... also you’ll need wget”.