On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 00:42:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Piping through less would be a natural first thing to do. Also,
let's not forget that installing from the same site carries the
same risks. -- Andrei
Not necessarily. At least a separate download gives you a chance
to verify the download was completed too. Piping direct into
shell could deliver an end-of-file in the middle of a file (e.g.
in the case of a network error) which might change the results.
Most likely result is a half-finished installation leaving
not-working garbage on your system, but it might also run a
different command...
rm -r /yourfile
is what it is supposed to do, but instead you received `rm -r /`
<end of file>... oops.
With a separate download you can at least verify the whole thing
was there before running it.
