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Pipe to shell is not "awesome". Pipe to shell is dangerous and it's irresponsible to encourage it. It's been discussed to death here before. For example, http:
by bensummers 14y ago
Pipe to shell is not "awesome". Pipe to shell is dangerous and it's irresponsible to encourage it.
It's been discussed to death here before. For example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430380 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430380
- charliesome 14y agoSo it's irresponsible to pipe some script off the internet into your shell, but it's completely fine to download some random gem and just require it straight away?
- lubutu 14y agoI'm pretty certain that's not what the parent was implying.
- charliesome 14y agoBoth lead to potentially running nasty code, yet people treat them differently.
- bensummers 14y agoDid you read all of the comment I linked to?