[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