You even see Microsoft offering those types of install one-liners. e.g. curl -sSL https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh | b

You even see Microsoft offering those types of install one-liners. e.g. curl -sSL https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh | bash /dev/stdin <additional install-script args> See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-install-script https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-in... There are other examples I've seen from time to time.