Could be confirmation bias/rage on my part of course, but I never took... > Some people took the “don’t curl | sh” advice as “you have to inspect every line of

Could be confirmation bias/rage on my part of course, but I never took... > Some people took the “don’t curl | sh” advice as “you have to inspect every line of a shell script installer you download”, which is of course absurd. ... to ever mean anything BUT "inspect every line". Which is, as you say, completely absurd.