Other than what others already said about early connection termination, there is one major reason why you should not pipe to a shell. To avoid users complainin

Other than what others already said about early connection termination, there is one major reason why you should not pipe to a shell. To avoid users complaining about how dangerous it is. This is why I distribute a tarball with an installer script in it. It's functionally almost the same, not that much harder, but it avoids all the backlash and makes my software more likely to be used.