No, they're not the same thing! It's not piping to your shell! The shell's single purpose is to execute code. Man is not supposed to do that and it would be con

No, they're not the same thing! It's not piping to your shell! The shell's single purpose is to execute code. Man is not supposed to do that and it would be considered a huge security issue if it could. In any case, how would you check the downloaded file? With a text editor? Are you sure that can't result in arbitrary code execution?