[shermantanktop]

How did that even get started? It’s not like downloading a zip or tar file is so terribly taxing.

[godelski]

Convenience, mostly.

  curl -L "foo.sh" -o foo.sh && bash foo.sh

Is just more characters. But you should do it simply because a poorly written bash script can accidentally mess you up when streaming.

Why sudo though?

I honestly think it's stupidity. Most people really don't know you can build programs to the user and don't need system privileges. I think everyone is just so used to installing from package managers and doing `sudo make install` that they forgot programs only need to be in $PATH and not /usr/bin

[esafak]

How is that any safer?

[godelski]

First off, I never used sudo...

Second off, you're not steaming into bash

Third, you gotta read between the lines a little. I used some convenience considering my audience is programmers. Don't use && or shove && `less foo.sh` in the middle. There's a million options here

[fc417fc802]

Don't take the example overly literally. Saving to file means you can read it before executing it.

That aside, it protects you from this gaping hole of an exploit mechanism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636792