Catastrophic? I can't claim that. But I can tell you that I had a server drop out on me when installing software this way. Here's a quick quote of the bug repor

Catastrophic? I can't claim that. But I can tell you that I had a server drop out on me when installing software this way. Here's a quick quote of the bug report I sent to Linode when I was installing Longview. > Bug: Update the nginx (?) error pages to be bash friendly > > root@marius ~]# curl -s https://lv.linode.com/nGiB | sudo bash > bash: line 1: html: No such file or directory > bash: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `<' > 'ash: line 2: `<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head> > > This could be done by just dumping out echo statements since its already > being parsed by the shell. Additional meta about the request (headers, etc) > could be dumped into comments too… > > # 502 Bad Gateway > echo > echo "Uh oh: Something went sideways during the install!" > echo "(" > echo "Re-running the installer should clear things up." > echo > echo " sudo !!" > echo