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finally something worse then curl | sh (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Saving it to a file is actually a decent method, since you can be sure the script you're reviewing is the same one you're running.

Personally I often will just manually run the install steps in order if the script is simple enough. Half the time it's just a bunch of OS version checks followed by a tar -xf