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It's SO BAD when people say ":just pipe this shell script to bash!" for their installers. I just can't take those projects seriously if they think that's accept
by burnte 2y ago
It's SO BAD when people say ":just pipe this shell script to bash!" for their installers. I just can't take those projects seriously if they think that's acceptable.
- Buttons840 2y agoI've often had the same feeling, but taking a critical view: How is "run these bash commands", worse than "run this Python script", or "run these binary instructions on your CPU"? It all seems mostly the same. What am I missing?
- noisy_boy 2y agoI am curious - if they provided a link to the script instead, would it have been ok? If you want to see the code before running, you can just redirect to a file before running it.
- joeldo 2y agoYou can review the bash script first. Regardless, they provide a few different installation options https://zed.dev/docs/linux https://zed.dev/docs/linux