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by jerf 533 days ago
I routinely save to a file before execution, but it's not really about being attacked. It's about the fact that those scripts, in order to be "fire and forget", make many assumptions, often very large ones, about where I want things or under what user, etc.

Many of them are actually quite well-written under the hood and can be easily moved to other directories, have comments about what it is doing, etc.